linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Handle alloc

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Message-ID: <1348058460.13080.52.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:41:00 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Handle alloc_arg failure

On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 21:26 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
> 

> Yeah, I agree.  But I wanted to add a bit more helpful (to developers)
> info - function name and line number - rather than just "not enough
> memory" message.  Maybe we could change do_warning to emit such info
> automatically.

But these only fail if you run out of memory for the tool. In that case,
I don't think it's that important which allocation failed.

-- Steve


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