linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/6] perf tools: Add perf

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Message-ID: <20131205092937.GB1265@krava.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:29:37 +0100
From:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] perf tools: Add perf_evlist errno

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 05:19:18PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Jiri,
> 
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:45:04 +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > hi,
> > Andi reported wrong error message for :S modifier
> > on kernel without event ID ioctl support.
> >
> > The reason was that the ioctl failed, but the error was
> > printed like the mmap would:
> >
> >     $ perf.old record -e '{cycles,cache-misses}:S' ls
> >     failed to mmap with 25 (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
> >     ls: Terminated
> 
> I see same confusing error message..
> 
> >
> > I experimentally added sort of 'libc errno' interface for
> > perf_evlist to be able to get proper error message, like:
> >
> >     $ perf record -e '{cycles,cache-misses}:S' ls
> >     Cannot read event group on this kernel.
> >     Please consider kernel update (v3.12+).
> >     ls: Terminated
> >
> > I'm not sure about this approach. Maybe it'd be better be more
> > global..? So before throwing this out, sending it as RFC ;-)
> 
> I like it. :)  We still need to improve this user-visible error handling.
> 
> But what you mean by 'more global'?  I think the evlist APIs are pretty
> global alreay.  And we have same error handling in perf_target code too.

aah, missed the target object has that already.. I meant
to keep the same way of error handling globaly

> 
> But I think it'd be better making it thread-safe even though it's not
> needed for now.  The code is growing really fast.. ;-)

ok, will repost 

thanks,
jirka
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