perf tools: Propagate perf_config() errors

Previously these were being ignored, sometimes silently.

Stop doing that, emitting debug messages and handling the errors.

Testing it:

  $ cat ~/.perfconfig
  cat: /home/acme/.perfconfig: No such file or directory
  $ perf stat -e cycles usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

           938,996      cycles:u

       0.003813731 seconds time elapsed

  $ perf top --stdio
  Error:
  You may not have permission to collect system-wide stats.

  Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid,
  <SNIP>
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
  [acme@jouet linux]$ perf report --stdio
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object      Symbol
  # ........  .......  .................  .........................
    71.77%  usleep   libc-2.24.so       [.] _dl_addr
    27.07%  usleep   ld-2.24.so         [.] _dl_next_ld_env_entry
     1.13%  usleep   [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] page_fault
  $
  $ touch ~/.perfconfig
  $ ls -la ~/.perfconfig
  -rw-rw-r--. 1 acme acme 0 Jan 27 12:14 /home/acme/.perfconfig
  $
  $ perf stat -e instructions usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

           244,610      instructions:u

       0.000805383 seconds time elapsed

  $
  [root@jouet ~]# chown acme.acme ~/.perfconfig
  [root@jouet ~]# perf stat -e cycles usleep 1
    Warning: File /root/.perfconfig not owned by current user or root, ignoring it.

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

           937,615      cycles

       0.000836931 seconds time elapsed
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j2rq96so6xdqlr8p8rd6a3jx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
index 915869e00d86..29f4751a3574 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
@@ -1920,10 +1920,12 @@ int cmd_kmem(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 		NULL
 	};
 	struct perf_session *session;
-	int ret = -1;
 	const char errmsg[] = "No %s allocation events found.  Have you run 'perf kmem record --%s'?\n";
+	int ret = perf_config(kmem_config, NULL);
+
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 
-	perf_config(kmem_config, NULL);
 	argc = parse_options_subcommand(argc, argv, kmem_options,
 					kmem_subcommands, kmem_usage, 0);
 
@@ -1948,6 +1950,8 @@ int cmd_kmem(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 	if (session == NULL)
 		return -1;
 
+	ret = -1;
+
 	if (kmem_slab) {
 		if (!perf_evlist__find_tracepoint_by_name(session->evlist,
 							  "kmem:kmalloc")) {