linux/tools
Ingo Molnar ceb53fbf6d perf stat: Fail more clearly when an invalid modifier is specified
Currently we fail without printing any error message on "perf stat -e task-clock-msecs".

The reason is that the task-clock event is matched and the "-msecs" postfix is assumed
to be an event modifier - but is not recognized.

This patch changes the code to be more informative:

 $ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true
 invalid event modifier: '-msecs'
 Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers

And restructures the return value of parse_event_modifier() to allow
the printing of all variants of invalid event modifiers.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wlaw3dvz1ly6wple8l52cfca@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 20:04:55 +02:00
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firewire tools/firewire: nosy-dump: increment program version 2010-07-27 11:04:12 +02:00
perf perf stat: Fail more clearly when an invalid modifier is specified 2011-04-26 20:04:55 +02:00
power/x86 Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
slub slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c 2010-11-06 09:04:32 +02:00
testing/ktest Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest 2011-03-21 14:13:48 -07:00
usb USB: ffs-test: fix header path 2011-02-28 19:27:12 -08:00
virtio tools/virtio: virtio_test tool 2010-12-09 16:00:22 +02:00