Re: [PATCH V2]Perf:Return error code for perf_session__new function on failure

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>]

Em Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:07:18PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:50:49PM +0530, Mamatha Inamdar wrote:
> > This Patch is to return error code of perf_new_session function
> > on failure instead of NULL
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Test Results:
> > 
> > Before Fix:
> > 
> > $ perf c2c report -input
> > failed to open nput: No such file or directory
> > 
> > $ echo $?
> > 0
> > ------------------------------------------
> > After Fix:
> > 
> > $ ./perf c2c report -input
> > failed to open nput: No such file or directory
> > 
> > $ echo $?
> > 254
> 
> [root@krava perf]# ./perf c2c report -input
> failed to open nput: No such file or directory
> [root@krava perf]# echo $?
> 255
> 
> hum, not sure why I'm getting 255.. but it looks good now
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

You guys missed this one, that I've corrected in my tree, i.e.
TEST_ASSERT_VAL expects that second arg to be NULL in case of failure,
so we need to invert the result of IS_ERR(session) to keep the
expectation.

- Arnaldo

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/topology.c b/tools/perf/tests/topology.c
index 7d845d913d7d..4a800499d7c3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/topology.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/topology.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include "session.h"
 #include "evlist.h"
 #include "debug.h"
+#include <linux/err.h>
 
 #define TEMPL "/tmp/perf-test-XXXXXX"
 #define DATA_SIZE	10
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ static int session_write_header(char *path)
 	};
 
 	session = perf_session__new(&data, false, NULL);
-	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("can't get session", session);
+	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("can't get session", !IS_ERR(session));
 
 	session->evlist = perf_evlist__new_default();
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("can't get evlist", session->evlist);
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ static int check_cpu_topology(char *path, struct perf_cpu_map *map)
 	int i;
 
 	session = perf_session__new(&data, false, NULL);
-	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("can't get session", session);
+	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("can't get session", !IS_ERR(session));
 
 	/* On platforms with large numbers of CPUs process_cpu_topology()
 	 * might issue an error while reading the perf.data file section