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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-04-27 02:06:33 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-04-26 18:04:55 (GMT)
commitceb53fbf6dbb1df26d38379a262c6981fe73dd36 (patch)
tree128bc025a3b4a99c212d9c78ca3ff3b492d730af /tools/perf
parentb908debd4eef91471016138569f7a9e292be682e (diff)
downloadlinux-ceb53fbf6dbb1df26d38379a262c6981fe73dd36.tar.xz
perf stat: Fail more clearly when an invalid modifier is specified
Currently we fail without printing any error message on "perf stat -e task-clock-msecs". The reason is that the task-clock event is matched and the "-msecs" postfix is assumed to be an event modifier - but is not recognized. This patch changes the code to be more informative: $ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true invalid event modifier: '-msecs' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers And restructures the return value of parse_event_modifier() to allow the printing of all variants of invalid event modifiers. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wlaw3dvz1ly6wple8l52cfca@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/parse-events.c33
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 8e54bdb..b686269 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -721,15 +721,19 @@ parse_numeric_event(const char **strp, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
return EVT_FAILED;
}
-static enum event_result
+static int
parse_event_modifier(const char **strp, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
{
const char *str = *strp;
int exclude = 0;
int eu = 0, ek = 0, eh = 0, precise = 0;
- if (*str++ != ':')
+ if (!*str)
return 0;
+
+ if (*str++ != ':')
+ return -1;
+
while (*str) {
if (*str == 'u') {
if (!exclude)
@@ -750,14 +754,16 @@ parse_event_modifier(const char **strp, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
++str;
}
- if (str >= *strp + 2) {
- *strp = str;
- attr->exclude_user = eu;
- attr->exclude_kernel = ek;
- attr->exclude_hv = eh;
- attr->precise_ip = precise;
- return 1;
- }
+ if (str < *strp + 2)
+ return -1;
+
+ *strp = str;
+
+ attr->exclude_user = eu;
+ attr->exclude_kernel = ek;
+ attr->exclude_hv = eh;
+ attr->precise_ip = precise;
+
return 0;
}
@@ -800,7 +806,12 @@ parse_event_symbols(const struct option *opt, const char **str,
return EVT_FAILED;
modifier:
- parse_event_modifier(str, attr);
+ if (parse_event_modifier(str, attr) < 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "invalid event modifier: '%s'\n", *str);
+ fprintf(stderr, "Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers\n");
+
+ return EVT_FAILED;
+ }
return ret;
}