[Lldb-commits] [lldb] 3716107 - [NFC][intel pt] Improve troubleshooting message

[Walter Erquinigo via lldb-commits]

Author: Walter Erquinigo
Date: 2022-08-03T11:34:03-07:00
New Revision: 371610793491fcd1c9af114a0de0cdda9a4408b0

URL: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/371610793491fcd1c9af114a0de0cdda9a4408b0
DIFF: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/371610793491fcd1c9af114a0de0cdda9a4408b0.diff

LOG: [NFC][intel pt] Improve troubleshooting message

Added: 
    

Modified: 
    lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/tools/intelpt/intelpt_testcase.py
    lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/IntelPTMultiCoreTrace.cpp

Removed: 
    


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diff  --git a/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/tools/intelpt/intelpt_testcase.py b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/tools/intelpt/intelpt_testcase.py
index 511dd6822b866..5c70bad91ba68 100644
--- a/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/tools/intelpt/intelpt_testcase.py
+++ b/lldb/packages/Python/lldbsuite/test/tools/intelpt/intelpt_testcase.py
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ def is_supported():
                 return False
         if not is_supported():
             self.skipTest("Per cpu tracing is not supported. You need "
-                "/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to be 0 or -1.")
+                "/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to be 0 or -1. "
+                "You can use `sudo sysctl -w kernel.perf_event_paranoid=-1` for that.")
 
     def getTraceOrCreate(self):
         if not self.target().GetTrace().IsValid():

diff  --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/IntelPTMultiCoreTrace.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/IntelPTMultiCoreTrace.cpp
index 8f646c163bd10..a4794e7c8ca34 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/IntelPTMultiCoreTrace.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/IntelPTMultiCoreTrace.cpp
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static Error IncludePerfEventParanoidMessageInError(Error &&error) {
   return createStringError(
       inconvertibleErrorCode(),
       "%s\nYou might need to rerun as sudo or to set "
-      "/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to a value of 0 or -1.",
+      "/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to a value of 0 or -1. You can use `sudo sysctl -w kernel.perf_event_paranoid=-1` for that.",
       toString(std::move(error)).c_str());
 }