perf tools: Propagate perf_config() errors

Previously these were being ignored, sometimes silently.

Stop doing that, emitting debug messages and handling the errors.

Testing it:

  $ cat ~/.perfconfig
  cat: /home/acme/.perfconfig: No such file or directory
  $ perf stat -e cycles usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

           938,996      cycles:u

       0.003813731 seconds time elapsed

  $ perf top --stdio
  Error:
  You may not have permission to collect system-wide stats.

  Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid,
  <SNIP>
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
  [acme@jouet linux]$ perf report --stdio
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object      Symbol
  # ........  .......  .................  .........................
    71.77%  usleep   libc-2.24.so       [.] _dl_addr
    27.07%  usleep   ld-2.24.so         [.] _dl_next_ld_env_entry
     1.13%  usleep   [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] page_fault
  $
  $ touch ~/.perfconfig
  $ ls -la ~/.perfconfig
  -rw-rw-r--. 1 acme acme 0 Jan 27 12:14 /home/acme/.perfconfig
  $
  $ perf stat -e instructions usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

           244,610      instructions:u

       0.000805383 seconds time elapsed

  $
  [root@jouet ~]# chown acme.acme ~/.perfconfig
  [root@jouet ~]# perf stat -e cycles usleep 1
    Warning: File /root/.perfconfig not owned by current user or root, ignoring it.

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

           937,615      cycles

       0.000836931 seconds time elapsed
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j2rq96so6xdqlr8p8rd6a3jx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c b/tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c
index 7123f4de32cc..4e6cbc99f08e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c
@@ -1473,7 +1473,7 @@ int bt_convert__perf2ctf(const char *input, const char *path,
 		},
 	};
 	struct ctf_writer *cw = &c.writer;
-	int err = -1;
+	int err;
 
 	if (opts->all) {
 		c.tool.comm = process_comm_event;
@@ -1481,12 +1481,15 @@ int bt_convert__perf2ctf(const char *input, const char *path,
 		c.tool.fork = process_fork_event;
 	}
 
-	perf_config(convert__config, &c);
+	err = perf_config(convert__config, &c);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
 
 	/* CTF writer */
 	if (ctf_writer__init(cw, path))
 		return -1;
 
+	err = -1;
 	/* perf.data session */
 	session = perf_session__new(&file, 0, &c.tool);
 	if (!session)