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There are two checks, one is for size when running without admin, but this one is covered by the driver and reported on in more detail here (builtin-record.c): pr_err("Permission error mapping pages.\n" "Consider increasing " "/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb,\n" "or try again with a smaller value of -m/--mmap_pages.\n" "(current value: %u,%u)\n", This had the effect of artificially limiting the aux buffer size to a value smaller than what was allowed because perf_event_mlock_kb wasn't taken into account. The second is to check for a power of two, but this is covered here (evlist.c): pr_info("rounding mmap pages size to %s (%lu pages)\n", buf, pages); Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208115435.610101-1-james.clark@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>