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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-11-03 19:12:21 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-04 13:02:46 +0100
commita7f4328b91fb6e71dbe1fa4d46f3597c9555014d (patch)
tree623cbc358e3cc47d6419d760c889a91ee371b9f9 /tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
parentc43f9d1e61e265c6bfafdd65c7f07c8d71a7efc3 (diff)
perf/probes: Improve error messages
Improve error messages in perf-probe so that users can figure out problems easily. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20091104001221.3454.52030.stgit@harusame> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-probe.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-probe.c20
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
index 81245238e34..65bcaed0ef4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
@@ -294,10 +294,11 @@ static int write_new_event(int fd, const char *buf)
{
int ret;
- printf("Adding new event: %s\n", buf);
ret = write(fd, buf, strlen(buf));
if (ret <= 0)
- die("failed to create event.");
+ die("Failed to create event.");
+ else
+ printf("Added new event: %s\n", buf);
return ret;
}
@@ -310,7 +311,7 @@ static int synthesize_probe_event(struct probe_point *pp)
int i, len, ret;
pp->probes[0] = buf = (char *)calloc(MAX_CMDLEN, sizeof(char));
if (!buf)
- die("calloc");
+ die("Failed to allocate memory by calloc.");
ret = snprintf(buf, MAX_CMDLEN, "%s+%d", pp->function, pp->offset);
if (ret <= 0 || ret >= MAX_CMDLEN)
goto error;
@@ -363,7 +364,7 @@ int cmd_probe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
if (ret == -E2BIG)
semantic_error("probe point is too long.");
else if (ret < 0)
- die("snprintf");
+ die("Failed to synthesize a probe point.");
}
#ifndef NO_LIBDWARF
@@ -375,7 +376,7 @@ int cmd_probe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
else
fd = open_default_vmlinux();
if (fd < 0)
- die("vmlinux/module file open");
+ die("Could not open vmlinux/module file.");
/* Searching probe points */
for (j = 0; j < session.nr_probe; j++) {
@@ -396,8 +397,13 @@ setup_probes:
/* Settng up probe points */
snprintf(buf, MAX_CMDLEN, "%s/../kprobe_events", debugfs_path);
fd = open(buf, O_WRONLY, O_APPEND);
- if (fd < 0)
- die("kprobe_events open");
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ if (errno == ENOENT)
+ die("kprobe_events file does not exist - please rebuild with CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACER.");
+ else
+ die("Could not open kprobe_events file: %s",
+ strerror(errno));
+ }
for (j = 0; j < session.nr_probe; j++) {
pp = &session.probes[j];
if (pp->found == 1) {