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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2014-05-26 21:02:29 +0200
committerJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>2014-06-03 21:34:00 +0200
commit1b5726220fe16ac38eb2db43e7bc82e69f449fca (patch)
tree10b0f7b5385bb2fc7017f94451ab9a672f4d744a /tools/perf/perf.c
parentMerge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/... (diff)
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perf trace: Warn the user when not available
When the audit-libs devel package is not found at build time we disable the 'trace' command, as we are not able to map syscall numbers to strings, but then the message the user is presented is cryptic: [root@zoo linux]# trace ls perf: 'ls' is not a perf-command. See 'perf --help'. Fix it by presenting a more helpful message: [root@zoo linux]# trace l trace command not available: missing audit-libs devel package at build time. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uxeunqetd0sgxyibusapen9a@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/perf.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/perf.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.c b/tools/perf/perf.c
index 431798a4110d..78f7b920e548 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/perf.c
@@ -481,14 +481,18 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
fprintf(stderr, "cannot handle %s internally", cmd);
goto out;
}
-#ifdef HAVE_LIBAUDIT_SUPPORT
if (!prefixcmp(cmd, "trace")) {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBAUDIT_SUPPORT
set_buildid_dir();
setup_path();
argv[0] = "trace";
return cmd_trace(argc, argv, NULL);
- }
+#else
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "trace command not available: missing audit-libs devel package at build time.\n");
+ goto out;
#endif
+ }
/* Look for flags.. */
argv++;
argc--;