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authorMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2016-02-09 18:20:39 +0000
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2016-02-09 18:20:39 +0000
commitfcdcc79628a1919bde9acf239e364f65bab6327c (patch)
tree5499be387cf3028c90ac083b1cf866ebed7bf7e0 /tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
parent7a8d44bc89e5cddcd5c0704a11a90484d36ba6ba (diff)
parenta0a90718f18264dc904d34a580f332006f5561e9 (diff)
Merge branch 'topic/acpi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi into spi-pxa2xx
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;
}