From e25613683bd5c46d3e8c8ae6416dccc9f357dcdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:31:26 -0200 Subject: perf trace: Read_tracing_data should die() another day MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit It better propagate errors, also if we do a simple: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -R -a -f sleep 3s ; perf trace [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.182 MB perf.data (~7972 samples) ] Fatal: not an trace data file [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# That is what is expected, right? I.e. as we didn't specify any tracepoint event via -e, it should gracefully bail out and not SEGFAULT. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <1258821086-11521-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> [ Fixed the error messages some more ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/util/trace-event.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tools/perf/util/trace-event.h') diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h b/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h index f6637c2fa1f..dd51c6872a1 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ unsigned long long raw_field_value(struct event *event, const char *name, void *data); void *raw_field_ptr(struct event *event, const char *name, void *data); -void read_tracing_data(int fd, struct perf_event_attr *pattrs, int nb_events); +int read_tracing_data(int fd, struct perf_event_attr *pattrs, int nb_events); /* taken from kernel/trace/trace.h */ enum trace_flag_type { -- cgit v1.2.3