linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/46] perf trace: Improve error message when receive non-tracepoint events

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Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:31:52 +0000
From:	Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
CC:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>, <pi3orama@....com>,
	Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 04/46] perf trace: Improve error message when receive non-tracepoint events

Before this patch, strange error message is provided if passed a
non-tracepoint event to 'perf trace':

 # perf trace -a  --ev cycles sleep 1
 Failed to set filter "common_pid != 27500" on event cycles with 22 (Invalid argument)

This is because 'perf trace' accepts all valid event during cmdline
parsing, but since it need setting filter to events, actually user
can pass tracepoints with '--ev' only.

This patch validate evlist, report error earlier:

 # ./perf trace -a  --ev cycles sleep 1
 Only support tracepoint events!

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@....com
---
 tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 20916dd..9b6e7c4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -2525,6 +2525,17 @@ out_enomem:
 	goto out;
 }
 
+static int validate_evlist(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
+{
+	struct perf_evsel *evsel;
+
+	evlist__for_each(evlist, evsel) {
+		if (evsel->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT)
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int trace__run(struct trace *trace, int argc, const char **argv)
 {
 	struct perf_evlist *evlist = trace->evlist;
@@ -3111,6 +3122,11 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 	argc = parse_options_subcommand(argc, argv, trace_options, trace_subcommands,
 				 trace_usage, PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
 
+	if (validate_evlist(trace.evlist)) {
+		pr_err("Only support tracepoint events!\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (trace.trace_pgfaults) {
 		trace.opts.sample_address = true;
 		trace.opts.sample_time = true;
-- 
1.8.3.4