3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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" -- 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