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| author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2010-05-02 13:37:24 -0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2010-05-02 13:37:24 -0300 |
| commit | 2c9faa060064343a4a0b16f5b77f3c61d1d17e23 (patch) | |
| tree | a777f00991bca2a82fc2dcff3f7335890fd0abc2 /tools | |
| parent | 454c407ec17a0c63e4023ac0877d687945a7df4a (diff) | |
perf record: Don't exit in live mode when no tracepoints are enabled
With this I was able to actually test Tom Zanussi's two previous patches
in my usual perf testing ways, i.e. without any tracepoints activated.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index e382d93d369..ac989e9ba8f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -666,12 +666,15 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv) nr_counters, process_synthesized_event, session); - if (err <= 0) { - pr_err("Couldn't record tracing data.\n"); - return err; - } - - advance_output(err); + /* + * FIXME err <= 0 here actually means that there were no tracepoints + * so its not really an error, just that we don't need to synthesize + * anything. + * We really have to return this more properly and also propagate + * errors that now are calling die() + */ + if (err > 0) + advance_output(err); } machine = perf_session__find_host_machine(session); |