perf list: Give clues if failed to open tracing events directory

When executing the command "perf list", I met "Error: failed to open
tracing events directory" twice, the first reason is that there is no
"/sys/kernel/tracing/events" directory due to it does not enable the
kernel tracing infrastructure with CONFIG_FTRACE, the second reason
is that there is no root privileges.

Add the error string to tell the users what happened and what should
to do, and also call put_tracing_file() to free events_path a little
later to avoid messy code in the error message.

At the same time, just remove the redundant "/" of the file path in
the function get_tracing_file(), otherwise it shows something like
"/sys/kernel/tracing//events".

Before:

  $ ./perf list
  Error: failed to open tracing events directory

After:

(1) Without CONFIG_FTRACE

  $ ./perf list
  Error: failed to open tracing events directory
  /sys/kernel/tracing/events: No such file or directory

(2) With CONFIG_FTRACE but no root privileges

  $ ./perf list
  Error: failed to open tracing events directory
  /sys/kernel/tracing/events: Permission denied

Committer testing:

Redirect stdout to null to quickly test the patch:

Before:

  $ perf list > /dev/null
  Error: failed to open tracing events directory
  $

After:

  $ perf list > /dev/null
  Error: failed to open tracing events directory
  /sys/kernel/tracing/events: Permission denied
  $

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240730062301.23244-3-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/api/fs/tracing_path.c b/tools/lib/api/fs/tracing_path.c
index 30745f35d0d2..834fd64c7130 100644
--- a/tools/lib/api/fs/tracing_path.c
+++ b/tools/lib/api/fs/tracing_path.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ char *get_tracing_file(const char *name)
 {
 	char *file;
 
-	if (asprintf(&file, "%s/%s", tracing_path_mount(), name) < 0)
+	if (asprintf(&file, "%s%s", tracing_path_mount(), name) < 0)
 		return NULL;
 
 	return file;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/print-events.c b/tools/perf/util/print-events.c
index 3f38c27f0157..81e0135cddf0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/print-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/print-events.c
@@ -68,11 +68,12 @@ void print_tracepoint_events(const struct print_callbacks *print_cb __maybe_unus
 	struct dirent **sys_namelist = NULL;
 	int sys_items;
 
-	put_tracing_file(events_path);
 	if (events_fd < 0) {
 		pr_err("Error: failed to open tracing events directory\n");
+		pr_err("%s: %s\n", events_path, strerror(errno));
 		return;
 	}
+	put_tracing_file(events_path);
 
 	sys_items = tracing_events__scandir_alphasort(&sys_namelist);