perf probe: Improve error message for unknown member of data structure
Improve the error message if we can not find given member in the given
structure. Currently perf probe shows a wrong error message as below.
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# perf probe getname_flags:65 "result->BOGUS"
result(type:filename) has no member BOGUS.
Failed to find 'result' in this function.
Error: Failed to add events. (-22)
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The first message is correct, but the second one is not, since we didn't
fail to find a variable but fails to find the member of given variable.
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# perf probe getname_flags:65 "result->BOGUS"
result(type:filename) has no member BOGUS.
Error: Failed to add events. (-22)
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With this patch, the error message shows only the first one. And if we
really failed to find given variable, it tells us so.
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# perf probe getname_flags:65 "BOGUS"
Failed to find 'BOGUS' in this function.
Error: Failed to add events. (-2)
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Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606071345.6788.23744.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
index 9d8eb26..ce8faf4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -573,14 +573,13 @@
if (!die_find_variable_at(sc_die, pf->pvar->var, pf->addr, &vr_die)) {
/* Search again in global variables */
if (!die_find_variable_at(&pf->cu_die, pf->pvar->var, 0, &vr_die))
+ pr_warning("Failed to find '%s' in this function.\n",
+ pf->pvar->var);
ret = -ENOENT;
}
if (ret >= 0)
ret = convert_variable(&vr_die, pf);
- if (ret < 0)
- pr_warning("Failed to find '%s' in this function.\n",
- pf->pvar->var);
return ret;
}