> On Feb 4, 2019, at 11:31 AM, Song Liu <songliubrav...@fb.com> wrote:
>
> Synthesizing BPF events is only supported for root. Silent warning msg
> when non-root user runs perf-record.
>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com>
> Reported-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davi...@fb.com>
> Tested-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davi...@fb.com>
> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubrav...@fb.com>
> ---
> 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.
