From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755234Ab1AKA2v (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:28:51 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([134.117.69.58]:40141 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755082Ab1AKA21 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:28:27 -0500 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , David Ahern , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Mike Galbraith , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Stephane Eranian , Tom Zanussi Subject: [PATCH 3/6] perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:28:09 -0200 Message-Id: <1294705692-9537-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.2.5 In-Reply-To: <1294705692-9537-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> References: <1294705692-9537-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Improve sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return handling in top and record, just like 5a3446b does for stat. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 3 +++ tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 7bc0490..7069bd3 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -331,6 +331,9 @@ try_again: else if (err == ENODEV && cpu_list) { die("No such device - did you specify" " an out-of-range profile CPU?\n"); + } else if (err == ENOENT) { + die("%s event is not supported. ", + event_name(evsel)); } else if (err == EINVAL && sample_id_all_avail) { /* * Old kernel, no attr->sample_id_type_all field diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c index 1e67ab9..6ce4042 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c @@ -1247,6 +1247,8 @@ try_again: die("Permission error - are you root?\n" "\t Consider tweaking" " /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.\n"); + if (err == ENOENT) + die("%s event is not supported. ", event_name(evsel)); /* * If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer * based cpu-clock-tick sw counter, which -- 1.6.2.5