r Ingo Molnar 1257696294 +0100 perf tools: Fix permission checks The perf_event_open() system call returns EACCES if the user is not root which results in a very confusing error message: $ perf record -A -a -f Error: perfcounter syscall returned with -1 (Permission denied) Fatal: No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured? It turns out that's because perf tools are checking only for EPERM. Fix that up to get a much better error message: $ perf record -A -a -f Fatal: Permission error - are you root? Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <1257696066-4046-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar VŸL´œ