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| author | Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> | 2009-11-04 01:12:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-11-04 13:02:46 +0100 |
| commit | a7f4328b91fb6e71dbe1fa4d46f3597c9555014d (patch) | |
| tree | 623cbc358e3cc47d6419d760c889a91ee371b9f9 /tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | |
| parent | perf/probes: Update Documentation/perf-probe.txt (diff) | |
| download | linux-a7f4328b91fb6e71dbe1fa4d46f3597c9555014d.tar.xz linux-a7f4328b91fb6e71dbe1fa4d46f3597c9555014d.zip | |
perf/probes: Improve error messages
Improve error messages in perf-probe so that users can figure
out problems easily.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091104001221.3454.52030.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-probe.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c index 81245238e341..65bcaed0ef49 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c @@ -294,10 +294,11 @@ static int write_new_event(int fd, const char *buf) { int ret; - printf("Adding new event: %s\n", buf); ret = write(fd, buf, strlen(buf)); if (ret <= 0) - die("failed to create event."); + die("Failed to create event."); + else + printf("Added new event: %s\n", buf); return ret; } @@ -310,7 +311,7 @@ static int synthesize_probe_event(struct probe_point *pp) int i, len, ret; pp->probes[0] = buf = (char *)calloc(MAX_CMDLEN, sizeof(char)); if (!buf) - die("calloc"); + die("Failed to allocate memory by calloc."); ret = snprintf(buf, MAX_CMDLEN, "%s+%d", pp->function, pp->offset); if (ret <= 0 || ret >= MAX_CMDLEN) goto error; @@ -363,7 +364,7 @@ int cmd_probe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used) if (ret == -E2BIG) semantic_error("probe point is too long."); else if (ret < 0) - die("snprintf"); + die("Failed to synthesize a probe point."); } #ifndef NO_LIBDWARF @@ -375,7 +376,7 @@ int cmd_probe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used) else fd = open_default_vmlinux(); if (fd < 0) - die("vmlinux/module file open"); + die("Could not open vmlinux/module file."); /* Searching probe points */ for (j = 0; j < session.nr_probe; j++) { @@ -396,8 +397,13 @@ setup_probes: /* Settng up probe points */ snprintf(buf, MAX_CMDLEN, "%s/../kprobe_events", debugfs_path); fd = open(buf, O_WRONLY, O_APPEND); - if (fd < 0) - die("kprobe_events open"); + if (fd < 0) { + if (errno == ENOENT) + die("kprobe_events file does not exist - please rebuild with CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACER."); + else + die("Could not open kprobe_events file: %s", + strerror(errno)); + } for (j = 0; j < session.nr_probe; j++) { pp = &session.probes[j]; if (pp->found == 1) { |