Re: [RFC 0/6] perf tools: Report event parsing errors

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 05:09:36PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:42:58PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 07:39:27PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > So since we now know exactly what's going on, we might want to drop 
> > > the 'invalid or unsupported event' language as well, and make it 
> > > specific:
> > > 
> > >    $ ./perf record -e 'cpu/even=0x1/' ls
> > >    event syntax error: 'cpu/even=0x1/'
> > >                             \___ unknown term
> > >  
> > > 
> > > ?
> > 
> > ok
> > 
> > > 
> > > Also, for the above error, could we easily list the valid terms? An 
> > > error like:
> > > 
> > >    $ ./perf record -e 'cpu/even=0x1/' ls
> > >    event syntax error: 'cpu/even=0x1/'
> > >                             \___ unknown term
> > >    valid terms: "event", "raw".
> > > 
> > > or so?
> > 
> > we already carry list of all terms for given pmu,
> > so it shouldn't be a problem
> 
> So, do you want me to apply this series and you work on top of it or
> should I wait for another that implements what Ingo suggested?

I'll resend v2 with the update

> 
> Also, we have:
> 
> [root@zoo ~]# perf stat --all -e cycles usleep 1
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> 
>          3,382,595      cycles                                                      
> 
>        0.001739102 seconds time elapsed
> 
> [root@zoo ~]# perf stat --all-cpus -e cycles usleep 1
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> 
>          2,435,672      cycles                                                      
> 
>        0.001191689 seconds time elapsed
> 
> [root@zoo ~]# perf stat --a -e cycles usleep 1
>   Error: Ambiguous option: a (could be --no-no-aggr or --append)
> 
>  usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]
> 
> [root@zoo ~]#
> 
> Which is nice, wouldn't it be good to have it for the that as well, i.e.
> for your example "ev=" would be a valid, and shorter form of "even=" or
> "event=".

hum, not sure I follow.. could you please explain in more details?

jirka