linux/tools
Masami Hiramatsu 36d789a4d7 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.

  -----
  # 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)
  -----

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.

  -----
  # perf probe getname_flags:65 "result->BOGUS"
  result(type:filename) has no member BOGUS.
    Error: Failed to add events. (-22)
  -----

With this patch, the error message shows only the first one.  And if we
really failed to find given variable, it tells us so.

  -----
  # perf probe getname_flags:65 "BOGUS"
  Failed to find 'BOGUS' in this function.
    Error: Failed to add events. (-2)
  -----

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>
2014-06-09 12:15:07 -03:00
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cgroup cgroups: fix cgroup_event_listener error handling 2013-01-08 10:00:44 -08:00
firewire tools/firewire: nosy-dump: check for allocation failure 2012-12-02 20:10:18 +01:00
hv Tools: hv: Handle the case when the target file exists correctly 2014-04-16 14:10:36 -07:00
include perf tools: Move ACCESS_ONCE from perf.h header 2014-05-05 17:49:07 +02:00
lguest tools/lguest: offer VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT for net device. 2013-07-15 11:18:32 +09:30
lib Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to resolve conflict and to prepare for new patches 2014-06-06 07:55:06 +02:00
net bpf_dbg: fix wrong register usage 2014-04-30 16:12:22 -04:00
nfsd
perf perf probe: Improve error message for unknown member of data structure 2014-06-09 12:15:07 -03:00
power tools/power/acpi: Minor bugfixes 2014-04-21 22:51:58 +02:00
scripts tools lib traceevent: Add global QUIET_CC_FPIC build output 2013-12-19 16:18:10 -03:00
testing This just contains a single update by Satoru Takeuchi, which adds 2014-04-04 21:27:43 -07:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: Introduce tmon, a tool for thermal subsystem 2013-11-07 08:45:34 +08:00
usb usb: tools: fix a regression issue that gcc can't link to pthread 2013-12-04 15:10:54 -08:00
virtio tools: Consolidate types.h 2014-05-01 21:22:39 +02:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: page-cache sniffing feature 2014-04-07 16:35:52 -07:00
Makefile tools/liblockdep: Build liblockdep from tools/Makefile 2014-05-08 13:34:45 -04:00