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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] perf tool: give user better message if precise is not supported
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:26:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347657962.7172.82.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120914201138.GA17024@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 22:11 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>   return -EPERF_CPU_PRECISE_EV_NOTSUPP;

I just don't like having to enumerate all possible fails, I'm too lazy.
Can't we be smarter about that? Could we do a {reason}x{bit-offset} like
thing?

Where we limit reason to a few simple things like:

 invalid
 out-of-range
 not-supported

and have the bit-offset indicate the field we're having the particular
problem with?

Then all we need is a smart way to generate and map the bit-offsets
without too much manual labour. 

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-14 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-13 20:59 [PATCH 0/3 v3] perf: precise mode and exclude_guest David Ahern
2012-09-13 20:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf tool: precise mode requires exclude_guest David Ahern
2012-10-20  0:55   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf tool: Precise " tip-bot for David Ahern
2012-09-13 20:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf: require exclude_guest to use PEBS - kernel side enforcement David Ahern
2012-10-20  0:56   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf: Require " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-13 20:59 ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] perf tool: give user better message if precise is not supported David Ahern
2012-09-14  5:43   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-14 11:13     ` David Ahern
2012-09-14 11:36       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-14 11:43         ` David Ahern
2012-09-14 18:00           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-09-14 18:07             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-14 20:05               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-14 20:11                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-14 21:26                   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-09-17  7:11                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-10-25  8:01   ` [tip:perf/core] perf tools: Give " tip-bot for David Ahern
2012-09-26  1:24 ` [PATCH 0/3 v3] perf: precise mode and exclude_guest David Ahern
2012-10-09 15:08 ` David Ahern
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-09-12 15:16 [PATCH 0/3 v2] " David Ahern
2012-09-12 15:16 ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] perf tool: give user better message if precise is not supported David Ahern

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