linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip ] [BUGFIX]: Fix to add a missing pair of braces for error path.

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:08:42 +0200
From:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	Patrick Palka <patrick@...cs.ath.cx>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip ] [BUGFIX]: Fix to add a missing pair of braces for
 error path.

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 03:17:12AM +0000, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Fix to add a missing pair of braces for error path.
> Commit 36d789a4d75f (perf probe: Improve error message for
> unknown member of data structure) introduced this bug.
> 
> Without this fix, defining an event with global variables
> is always failed, because it always returns -ENOENT if
> the argument is not a local variable.
> 
>   ----
>   # perf probe -na "vfs_read smp_found_config"
>     Error: Failed to add events.
>   ----
> 
> With this fix, you can set a global variable for the
> argument of new event.
> 
>   ----
>   # perf probe -na "vfs_read smp_found_config"
>   Added new event:
>     probe:vfs_read       (on vfs_read with smp_found_config)
> 
>   You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
> 
>           perf record -e probe:vfs_read -aR sleep 1
>   ----

queued for perf/urgent

thanks,
jirka
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