From ecc4c5614b24ee8ebaa35b834b5768dc9302ee3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:44:10 -0300 Subject: 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, [ 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 Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j2rq96so6xdqlr8p8rd6a3jx@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-record.c') diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 33a9eaaf9db4..ffac8ca9fb01 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -1670,7 +1670,9 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused) if (rec->evlist == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - perf_config(perf_record_config, rec); + err = perf_config(perf_record_config, rec); + if (err) + return err; argc = parse_options(argc, argv, record_options, record_usage, PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b