From 2c9faa060064343a4a0b16f5b77f3c61d1d17e23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 13:37:24 -0300 Subject: perf record: Don't exit in live mode when no tracepoints are enabled MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-record.c') 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); -- cgit v1.2.3