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Message-Id: <1369990056-10310-6-git-send-email-rric@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 10:47:25 +0200
From: Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Robert Richter <robert.richter@...xeda.com>
Subject: [PATCH 05/16] perf, persistent: Return resonable error code
From: Robert Richter <robert.richter@...xeda.com>
Returning -ENODEV if no file descriptor is found. An error code of -1
(-EPERM) is misleading in this case.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@...xeda.com>
---
kernel/events/persistent.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/persistent.c b/kernel/events/persistent.c
index 6612eb77..190aa75 100644
--- a/kernel/events/persistent.c
+++ b/kernel/events/persistent.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ int perf_get_persistent_event_fd(unsigned cpu, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
if (desc->attr->config == attr->config)
return __alloc_persistent_event_fd(desc);
- return -1;
+ return -ENODEV;
}
--
1.8.1.1
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