Commit 49836f78 authored by Jack Henschel's avatar Jack Henschel Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parser: Improve error message for PMU address filters

This is the second version of a patch that improves the error message of
the perf events parser when the PMU hardware does not support address
filters.

Previously, the perf returned the following error:

  $ perf record -e intel_pt// --filter 'filter sys_write'
  --filter option should follow a -e tracepoint or HW tracer option

This implies there is some syntax error present in the command line,
which is not true. Rather, notify the user that the CPU does not have
support for this feature.

For example, Intel chips based on the Broadwell micro-archticture have
the Intel PT PMU, but do not support address filtering.

Now, perf prints the following error message:

  $ perf record -e intel_pt// --filter 'filter sys_write'
  This CPU does not support address filtering
Signed-off-by: default avatarJack Henschel <jackdev@mailbox.org>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180704121345.19025-1-jackdev@mailbox.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent da15fc2f
......@@ -1991,8 +1991,11 @@ static int set_filter(struct perf_evsel *evsel, const void *arg)
int nr_addr_filters = 0;
struct perf_pmu *pmu = NULL;
if (evsel == NULL)
goto err;
if (evsel == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr,
"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint or HW tracer option\n");
return -1;
}
if (evsel->attr.type == PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
if (perf_evsel__append_tp_filter(evsel, str) < 0) {
......@@ -2014,8 +2017,11 @@ static int set_filter(struct perf_evsel *evsel, const void *arg)
perf_pmu__scan_file(pmu, "nr_addr_filters",
"%d", &nr_addr_filters);
if (!nr_addr_filters)
goto err;
if (!nr_addr_filters) {
fprintf(stderr,
"This CPU does not support address filtering\n");
return -1;
}
if (perf_evsel__append_addr_filter(evsel, str) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr,
......@@ -2024,12 +2030,6 @@ static int set_filter(struct perf_evsel *evsel, const void *arg)
}
return 0;
err:
fprintf(stderr,
"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint or HW tracer option\n");
return -1;
}
int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
......
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