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| author | Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> | 2010-06-11 20:36:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2010-06-17 13:55:54 -0300 |
| commit | 0f2c3de2ba110626515234d5d584fb1b0c0749a2 (patch) | |
| tree | e03dfb35a8cade9258f72d097f48ef49ac1a14c4 /tools | |
| parent | 84c104ad429c8a474b93dd374815d1c238032fa8 (diff) | |
perf session: fix error message on failure to open perf.data
If we cannot open our data file, print strerror(errno) for a more
comprehensible error message; and only suggest 'perf record' on ENOENT.
In particular, this fixes the nonsensical advice when:
% sudo perf record sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.009 MB perf.data (~381 samples) ]
% perf trace
failed to open file: perf.data (try 'perf record' first)
%
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LPU-Reference: <20100612033615.GA24731@hexapodia.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/session.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c index 8f83a183576..0564a5cfb12 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/session.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c @@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ static int perf_session__open(struct perf_session *self, bool force) self->fd = open(self->filename, O_RDONLY); if (self->fd < 0) { - pr_err("failed to open file: %s", self->filename); - if (!strcmp(self->filename, "perf.data")) + int err = errno; + + pr_err("failed to open %s: %s", self->filename, strerror(err)); + if (err == ENOENT && !strcmp(self->filename, "perf.data")) pr_err(" (try 'perf record' first)"); pr_err("\n"); return -errno; |