Commit 36d789a4 authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Improve error message for unknown member of data structure

Improve the error message if we can not find given member in the given
structure. Currently perf probe shows a wrong error message as below.

  -----
  # perf probe getname_flags:65 "result->BOGUS"
  result(type:filename) has no member BOGUS.
  Failed to find 'result' in this function.
    Error: Failed to add events. (-22)
  -----

The first message is correct, but the second one is not, since we didn't
fail to find a variable but fails to find the member of given variable.

  -----
  # perf probe getname_flags:65 "result->BOGUS"
  result(type:filename) has no member BOGUS.
    Error: Failed to add events. (-22)
  -----

With this patch, the error message shows only the first one.  And if we
really failed to find given variable, it tells us so.

  -----
  # perf probe getname_flags:65 "BOGUS"
  Failed to find 'BOGUS' in this function.
    Error: Failed to add events. (-2)
  -----
Reported-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606071345.6788.23744.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocalSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent a5c5009f
......@@ -573,14 +573,13 @@ static int find_variable(Dwarf_Die *sc_die, struct probe_finder *pf)
if (!die_find_variable_at(sc_die, pf->pvar->var, pf->addr, &vr_die)) {
/* Search again in global variables */
if (!die_find_variable_at(&pf->cu_die, pf->pvar->var, 0, &vr_die))
pr_warning("Failed to find '%s' in this function.\n",
pf->pvar->var);
ret = -ENOENT;
}
if (ret >= 0)
ret = convert_variable(&vr_die, pf);
if (ret < 0)
pr_warning("Failed to find '%s' in this function.\n",
pf->pvar->var);
return ret;
}
......
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