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perf ftrace: Detect whether ftrace is enabled on system
authorChangbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:01:26 +0000 (18:01 +0800)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:35:35 +0000 (09:35 -0300)
commit74298dd8acb875dc9b0486437945e50811b31794
tree4f87cd2da2b8a45abc96a93355274e282af73500
parent83420d5f586344f3781b35f5d78b67aea55bff2b
perf ftrace: Detect whether ftrace is enabled on system

To make error messages more accurate, this change detects whether ftrace is
enabled on system by checking trace file "set_ftrace_pid".

Before:

  # perf ftrace
  failed to reset ftrace
  #

After:

  # perf ftrace
  ftrace is not supported on this system
  #

Committer testing:

Doing it in an unprivileged toolbox container on Fedora 40:

Before:

  acme@number:~/git/perf-tools-next$ toolbox enter perf
  ⬢[acme@toolbox perf-tools-next]$ sudo su -
  ⬢[root@toolbox ~]# ~acme/bin/perf ftrace
  failed to reset ftrace
  ⬢[root@toolbox ~]#

After this patch:

  ⬢[root@toolbox ~]# ~acme/bin/perf ftrace
  ftrace is not supported on this system
  ⬢[root@toolbox ~]#

Maybe we could check if we are in such as situation, inside an
unprivileged container, and provide a HINT line?

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240911100126.900779-1-changbin.du@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c