From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>

Minor hint to speed up problem resolution and get 'trace' working for
non root users.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzic...@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-abdqi8km4fj9osrn70q2z...@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 59ef2802fcf6..c51223ac25f4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -1214,10 +1214,11 @@ int perf_evlist__strerror_open(struct perf_evlist 
*evlist __maybe_unused,
                                             "For your workloads it needs to be 
<= 1\nHint:\t");
                }
                printed += scnprintf(buf + printed, size - printed,
-                                    "For system wide tracing it needs to be 
set to -1");
+                                    "For system wide tracing it needs to be 
set to -1.\n");
 
                printed += scnprintf(buf + printed, size - printed,
-                                   ".\nHint:\tThe current value is %d.", 
value);
+                                   "Hint:\tTry: 'sudo sh -c \"echo -1 > 
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid\"'\n"
+                                   "Hint:\tThe current value is %d.", value);
                break;
        default:
                scnprintf(buf, size, "%s", emsg);
-- 
1.9.3

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