From 56e52e85366717481cde16b3480f015c7eb32ba3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:10:58 -0300 Subject: perf evsel: Introduce perf_evsel__open_strerror method That consolidates the error messages in 'record', 'stat' and 'top', that now get a consistent set of messages and allow other tools to use the new method to report problems using whatever UI toolkit. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1cudb7wl996kz7ilz83ctvhr@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 34 +++++----------------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-top.c') diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c index 8d41d0b..f5fd260 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c @@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ static void perf_top__mmap_read(struct perf_top *top) static void perf_top__start_counters(struct perf_top *top) { - char msg[128]; + char msg[512]; struct perf_evsel *counter; struct perf_evlist *evlist = top->evlist; struct perf_record_opts *opts = &top->record_opts; @@ -900,42 +900,18 @@ static void perf_top__start_counters(struct perf_top *top) perf_evlist__config(evlist, opts); list_for_each_entry(counter, &evlist->entries, node) { - struct perf_event_attr *attr = &counter->attr; try_again: if (perf_evsel__open(counter, top->evlist->cpus, top->evlist->threads) < 0) { - int err = errno; - - if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES) { - ui__error_paranoid(); - goto out_err; - } - - if (perf_evsel__fallback(counter, err, msg, sizeof(msg))) { + if (perf_evsel__fallback(counter, errno, msg, sizeof(msg))) { if (verbose) ui__warning("%s\n", msg); goto try_again; } - if (err == ENOENT) { - ui__error("The %s event is not supported.\n", - perf_evsel__name(counter)); - goto out_err; - } else if (err == EMFILE) { - ui__error("Too many events are opened.\n" - "Try again after reducing the number of events\n"); - goto out_err; - } else if ((err == EOPNOTSUPP) && (attr->precise_ip)) { - ui__error("\'precise\' request may not be supported. " - "Try removing 'p' modifier\n"); - goto out_err; - } - - ui__error("The sys_perf_event_open() syscall " - "returned with %d (%s). /bin/dmesg " - "may provide additional information.\n" - "No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support " - "configured?\n", err, strerror(err)); + perf_evsel__open_strerror(counter, &opts->target, + errno, msg, sizeof(msg)); + ui__error("%s\n", msg); goto out_err; } } -- cgit v1.1