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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf stat: Don't require a workload when using system wide or CPU options
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 07:42:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52540BD9.3000803@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131008133325.GF4018@ghostprotocols.net>

On 10/8/13 7:33 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> [acme@zoo linux]$ perf stat non-existent-proggie
> non-existent-proggie: No such file or directory

ok. so this is a different error. need to detect the workload does not 
exist.

> Why should we report all those counters for something that wasn't found
> in PATH?
>
> We either report just the first line, with the errno, or that and the
> last, with how long it took to try to execute it, but that probably
> shouldn't be printed, as it is supposed to be how long the workload ran,
> right?

Right. need to feed/detect the exec failure back to the parent.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-08 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-28 20:27 [PATCH 0/3] perf stat cleanups David Ahern
2013-09-28 20:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf stat: Fix misleading message when specifying cpu list or system wide David Ahern
2013-10-15  5:29   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for David Ahern
2013-09-28 20:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf stat: Don't require a workload when using system wide or CPU options David Ahern
2013-09-30  8:47   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-09-30 13:40     ` David Ahern
2013-10-08 12:39       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-10-08 12:51         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 13:27           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-10-08 19:24             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 13:25         ` David Ahern
2013-10-08 13:33           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-10-08 13:42             ` David Ahern [this message]
2013-10-15  5:30       ` [tip:perf/core] perf stat: Don' t " tip-bot for David Ahern
2013-09-28 20:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf stat: Add units to nanosec-based counters David Ahern
2013-10-15  5:30   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for David Ahern
2013-10-08  1:44 ` [PATCH 0/3] perf stat cleanups David Ahern

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