Re: [PATCH] perf utils: silent "Couldn't synthesize bpf events" warning for EPERM

[Song Liu]

> On Feb 4, 2019, at 11:31 AM, Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Synthesizing BPF events is only supported for root. Silent warning msg
> when non-root user runs perf-record.
> 
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidca@xxxxxx>
> Tested-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidca@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c
> index 796ef793f4ce..62dda96b0096 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c
> @@ -236,8 +236,8 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_bpf_events(struct perf_tool *tool,
> 			pr_debug("%s: can't get next program: %s%s",
> 				 __func__, strerror(errno),
> 				 errno == EINVAL ? " -- kernel too old?" : "");
> -			/* don't report error on old kernel */
> -			err = (errno == EINVAL) ? 0 : -1;
> +			/* don't report error on old kernel or EPERM  */
> +			err = (errno == EINVAL || errno == EPERM) ? 0 : -1;
> 			break;
> 		}
> 		fd = bpf_prog_get_fd_by_id(id);
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

CC David.