Commit f6eb0518 authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Fix to show correct error message for $vars and $params

Fix to show correct error messages for $vars and $params because
those special variables requires debug information to find the
real variables or function parameters.

E.g. without this fix;
  ----
  # perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.23.so getaddrinfo \$params
  Failed to write event: Invalid argument
  Please upgrade your kernel to at least 3.14 to have access to feature $params
    Error: Failed to add events.
  ----

Perf ends up with an error, but the message is not correct.  With this
fix, perf shows correct error message as below.

  ----
  # perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.23.so getaddrinfo \$params
  The /usr/lib64/libc-2.23.so file has no debug information.
  Rebuild with -g, or install an appropriate debuginfo package.
    Error: Failed to add events.
  ----
Reported-and-Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146831787438.17065.6152436996780110699.stgit@devboxSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent b4ee6d41
......@@ -1547,7 +1547,9 @@ bool perf_probe_event_need_dwarf(struct perf_probe_event *pev)
return true;
for (i = 0; i < pev->nargs; i++)
if (is_c_varname(pev->args[i].var))
if (is_c_varname(pev->args[i].var) ||
!strcmp(pev->args[i].var, "$params") ||
!strcmp(pev->args[i].var, "$vars"))
return true;
return false;
......
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