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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Naren A Devaiah <naren.devaiah@in.ibm.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 10/13]  perf: Re-Add make_absolute_path
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:49:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279075767.4190.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100712161239.GF25238@ghostprotocols.net>

On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 13:12 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:30:36AM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:

> Well, I prefer to follow the kernel way of doing things, i.e. to
> propagate as much as possible up the callchain the error return value,
> so that the apps can handle it in any way they prefer, i.e. die() calls
> in tools/perf/builtin-foo.c are okayish, but not on tools/perf/util/.

Ah, yes, die is a bit strong. And I have been starting to avoid them
too. Although, when malloc fails, it's almost certain that the app will
die soon anyway ;-)

-- Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-14  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-12 10:32 [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 0/13] Uprobes Patches: Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:32 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 1/13] mm: Move replace_page() / write_protect_page() to mm/memory.c Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:32 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 2/13] uprobes: Breakpoint insertion/removal in user space applications Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-20  4:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-20  7:22     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-08-04 12:05       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-04 12:48         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-08-04 13:02           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-12 10:32 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 3/13] uprobes: Slot allocation for Execution out of line(XOL) Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:32 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 4/13] uprobes: x86 specific functions for user space breakpointing Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:33 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 5/13] uprobes: Uprobes (un)registration and exception handling Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:33 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 6/13] uprobes: X86 support for Uprobes Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:33 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 7/13] uprobes: Uprobes Documentation Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:33 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 8/13] trace: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes traceevents Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:34 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 9/13] trace: uprobes trace_event interface Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:34 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 10/13] perf: Re-Add make_absolute_path Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 14:00   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-07-12 14:30     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-07-12 16:12       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-07-14  2:49         ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2010-07-14 16:23           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-07-14 20:45             ` Ingo Molnar
2010-07-14 20:50               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-07-12 15:33     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 16:26       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-07-12 17:26         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:34 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 11/13] perf: perf interface for uprobes Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 16:03   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-07-12 17:32     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:34 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 12/13] [RFC] perf: Show Potential probe points Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 14:41   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-07-12 15:55     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-12 10:34 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 13/13] [RFC] perf: show functions in a file without using pid Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-20  4:19 ` [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 0/13] Uprobes Patches: Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-20  6:38   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-20 21:03     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-07-21  2:42       ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-21 13:08         ` Steven Rostedt
2010-07-21 13:21           ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-07-21 13:26             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-21 14:10               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-07-21 14:22         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-07-21 15:50           ` Steven Rostedt
2010-07-21 13:19       ` Srikar Dronamraju

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