This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf evsel: Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: perf-evsel-fix-printing-of-perf_event_paranoid-message.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b69e63a45f2d96a0dfe930ed20385058d4574d2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 17:54:00 -0600 Subject: perf evsel: Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message From: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> commit b69e63a45f2d96a0dfe930ed20385058d4574d2f upstream. message is currently shown as: Error: You may not have permission to collect %sstats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid: Note the %sstats. With patch this becomes: Error: You may not have permission to collect stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid: Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369526040-1368-1-git-send-email-dsahern@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: xiakaixu <xiakaixu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct per switch (err) { case EPERM: case EACCES: - return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", + return scnprintf(msg, size, "You may not have permission to collect %sstats.\n" "Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid:\n" " -1 - Not paranoid at all\n" Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dsahern@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/perf-evsel-fix-printing-of-perf_event_paranoid-message.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html