perf tools: Enhance parsing events tracepoint error output
Enhancing parsing events tracepoint error output. Adding
more verbose output when the tracepoint is not found or
the tracing event path cannot be access.
  $ sudo perf record -e sched:sched_krava ls
  event syntax error: 'sched:sched_krava'
                       \___ unknown tracepoint
  Error:  File /sys/kernel/debug/tracing//tracing/events/sched/sched_krava not found.
  Hint:   Perhaps this kernel misses some CONFIG_ setting to enable this feature?.
  Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
  ...
  $ perf record -e sched:sched_krava ls
  event syntax error: 'sched:sched_krava'
                       \___ can't access trace events
  Error:  No permissions to read /sys/kernel/debug/tracing//tracing/events/sched/sched_krava
  Hint:   Try 'sudo mount -o remount,mode=755 /sys/kernel/debug'
  Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
  ...
Signed-off-by:  Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by:
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Raphael Beamonte <raphael.beamonte@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441615087-13886-6-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Raphael Beamonte <raphael.beamonte@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441615087-13886-6-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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