From 36d789a4d75f3826faa6e75b018942b63ffed1a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 07:13:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] perf probe: Improve error message for unknown member of data structure Improve the error message if we can not find given member in the given structure. Currently perf probe shows a wrong error message as below. ----- # perf probe getname_flags:65 "result->BOGUS" result(type:filename) has no member BOGUS. Failed to find 'result' in this function. Error: Failed to add events. (-22) ----- The first message is correct, but the second one is not, since we didn't fail to find a variable but fails to find the member of given variable. ----- # perf probe getname_flags:65 "result->BOGUS" result(type:filename) has no member BOGUS. Error: Failed to add events. (-22) ----- With this patch, the error message shows only the first one. And if we really failed to find given variable, it tells us so. ----- # perf probe getname_flags:65 "BOGUS" Failed to find 'BOGUS' in this function. Error: Failed to add events. (-2) ----- Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606071345.6788.23744.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- Reading git-format-patch failed