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authorIgor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>2019-08-26 21:39:16 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-08-28 17:19:28 -0300
commitd06e5fad8c4692c6e5f1bd626056f23716bfe4a6 (patch)
treed5ca6de87ba80ed3a1a50b74f095434ffcdc121b /tools/perf/builtin-top.c
parent8859aedefefe7eeea5e67968b7fe39c828d589a0 (diff)
perf tools: Warn that perf_event_paranoid can restrict kernel symbols
Warn that /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid can also restrict kernel symbols. Signed-off-by: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com> Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566869956-7154-6-git-send-email-ilubashe@akamai.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-top.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-top.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 5970723cd55a..29e910fb2d9a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ static void perf_event__process_sample(struct perf_tool *tool,
if (!perf_evlist__exclude_kernel(top->session->evlist)) {
ui__warning(
"Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) are restricted.\n\n"
-"Check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict.\n\n"
+"Check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict and /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.\n\n"
"Kernel%s samples will not be resolved.\n",
al.map && map__has_symbols(al.map) ?
" modules" : "");