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Namhyung Kim 189a977e4d perf bpf-filter: Improve error messages
The BPF filter needs libbpf/BPF-skeleton support and root privilege.
Add error messages to help users understand the problem easily.

When it's not build with BPF support (make BUILD_BPF_SKEL=0).

  $ sudo perf record -e cycles --filter "pid != 0" true
  Error: BPF filter is requested but perf is not built with BPF.
  	Please make sure to build with libbpf and BPF skeleton.

   Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
      or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]

          --filter <filter>
                            event filter

When it supports BPF but runs without root or CAP_BPF.  Note that it
also checks pinned BPF filters.

  $ perf record -e cycles --filter "pid != 0" -o /dev/null true
  Error: BPF filter only works for users with the CAP_BPF capability!
  	Please run 'perf record --setup-filter pin' as root first.

   Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
      or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]

          --filter <filter>
                            event filter

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250604174835.1852481-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-06-09 11:18:17 -07:00
arch The delayed from_timer() API cleanup: 2025-06-08 11:33:00 -07:00
block treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of() 2025-06-08 09:07:37 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto EFI updates for v6.16 2025-05-30 12:42:57 -07:00
Documentation fourteen smb3 client fixes, most smbdirect related 2025-06-08 10:20:21 -07:00
drivers The delayed from_timer() API cleanup: 2025-06-08 11:33:00 -07:00
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init Rust changes for v6.16 2025-06-04 21:18:37 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.16-20250606 2025-06-06 13:09:03 -07:00
ipc - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
kernel The delayed from_timer() API cleanup: 2025-06-08 11:33:00 -07:00
lib 13 hotfixes. 6 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.15 issues 2025-06-06 21:45:45 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add CC0-1.0 license text 2025-05-21 14:54:17 +02:00
mm treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of() 2025-06-08 09:07:37 +02:00
net treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of() 2025-06-08 09:07:37 +02:00
rust Char/Misc/IIO pull request for 6.16-rc1 2025-06-06 11:50:47 -07:00
samples - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v6.16 2025-06-07 10:05:35 -07:00
security require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30 2025-05-31 08:16:52 -07:00
sound treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of() 2025-06-08 09:07:37 +02:00
tools perf bpf-filter: Improve error messages 2025-06-09 11:18:17 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-lockdep-common' into HEAD 2025-05-28 06:29:17 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
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.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore Python compiled bytecode 2025-04-24 10:12:46 -06:00
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.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Update Christoph's Email address and make it consistent 2025-05-12 23:50:31 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS fourteen smb3 client fixes, most smbdirect related 2025-06-08 10:20:21 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.16-rc1 2025-06-08 13:44:43 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.