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author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-03-24 17:49:02 +0300 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-03-24 18:08:43 +0300 |
commit | 18425f13a0890ac1e88a64276771c1ae10030b4a (patch) | |
tree | b5970c64fcf4e8716dcfe865c5e0b1f22c6451d1 /tools/perf/builtin-top.c | |
parent | 17e44dc46f035ca27847bbf75ffd3072ed49f13c (diff) | |
download | linux-18425f13a0890ac1e88a64276771c1ae10030b4a.tar.xz |
perf symbols: Save DSO loading errno to better report errors
Before, when some problem happened while trying to load the kernel
symtab, 'perf top' would show:
┌─Warning:───────────────────────────┐
│The vmlinux file can't be used. │
│Kernel samples will not be resolved.│
│ │
│ │
│Press any key... │
└────────────────────────────────────┘
Now, it reports:
# perf top --vmlinux /dev/null
┌─Warning:───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│The /tmp/passwd file can't be used: Invalid ELF file│
│Kernel samples will not be resolved. │
│ │
│ │
│Press any key... │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
This is possible because we now register the reason for not being able
to load the symtab in the dso->load_errno member, and provide a
dso__strerror_load() routine to format this error into a strerror like
string with a short reason for the error while loading.
That can be just forwarding the dso__strerror_load() call to
strerror_r(), or, for a separate errno range providing a custom message.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-u5rb5uq63xqhkfb8uv2lxd5u@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-top.c')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c index 5fb8723c7128..1cb3436276d1 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c @@ -757,8 +757,10 @@ static void perf_event__process_sample(struct perf_tool *tool, al.map == machine->vmlinux_maps[MAP__FUNCTION] && RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&al.map->dso->symbols[MAP__FUNCTION])) { if (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name) { - ui__warning("The %s file can't be used.\n%s", - symbol_conf.vmlinux_name, msg); + char serr[256]; + dso__strerror_load(al.map->dso, serr, sizeof(serr)); + ui__warning("The %s file can't be used: %s\n%s", + symbol_conf.vmlinux_name, serr, msg); } else { ui__warning("A vmlinux file was not found.\n%s", msg); |