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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-01-13 00:21:27 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-01-13 00:21:27 -0500
commitddb5388ffd0ad75d07e7b78181a0b579824ba6f0 (patch)
treebe1e2bd103c69d7bbace3fffd97bc3d714bbc3d7 /tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
parentccdf6ce6a8dba374668ae9b4d763e19903611c38 (diff)
parent67990608c8b95d2b8ccc29932376ae73d5818727 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/probe-event.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/probe-event.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 03875f9154e7..93996ec4bbe3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -2326,8 +2326,11 @@ static int get_new_event_name(char *buf, size_t len, const char *base,
goto out;
if (!allow_suffix) {
- pr_warning("Error: event \"%s\" already exists. "
- "(Use -f to force duplicates.)\n", buf);
+ pr_warning("Error: event \"%s\" already exists.\n"
+ " Hint: Remove existing event by 'perf probe -d'\n"
+ " or force duplicates by 'perf probe -f'\n"
+ " or set 'force=yes' in BPF source.\n",
+ buf);
ret = -EEXIST;
goto out;
}