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authorHe Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>2015-05-11 11:25:04 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-05-12 14:59:50 +0200
commit7d5eaba9b33682b734e3a79c21c4a9a5f91624b1 (patch)
treea8dcdfd13dde51b48d41cb1c6747e98ae326db34 /tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
parentperf probe: Add --range option to show a variable's location range (diff)
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perf probe: Show better error message when failed to find variable
Indicate to check variable location range in error message when we got failed to find the variable. Before this patch: $ perf probe --add 'generic_perform_write+118 bytes' Failed to find the location of bytes at this address. Perhaps, it has been optimized out. Error: Failed to add events. After this patch: $ perf probe --add 'generic_perform_write+118 bytes' Failed to find the location of the 'bytes' variable at this address. Perhaps it has been optimized out. Use -V with the --range option to show 'bytes' location range. Error: Failed to add events. Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431336304-16863-3-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.com [ Improve the error message based on lkml thread ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
index 5804086425aa..590a24a7f555 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -527,10 +527,12 @@ static int convert_variable(Dwarf_Die *vr_die, struct probe_finder *pf)
ret = convert_variable_location(vr_die, pf->addr, pf->fb_ops,
&pf->sp_die, pf->tvar);
- if (ret == -ENOENT || ret == -EINVAL)
- pr_err("Failed to find the location of %s at this address.\n"
- " Perhaps, it has been optimized out.\n", pf->pvar->var);
- else if (ret == -ENOTSUP)
+ if (ret == -ENOENT || ret == -EINVAL) {
+ pr_err("Failed to find the location of the '%s' variable at this address.\n"
+ " Perhaps it has been optimized out.\n"
+ " Use -V with the --range option to show '%s' location range.\n",
+ pf->pvar->var, pf->pvar->var);
+ } else if (ret == -ENOTSUP)
pr_err("Sorry, we don't support this variable location yet.\n");
else if (ret == 0 && pf->pvar->field) {
ret = convert_variable_fields(vr_die, pf->pvar->var,