Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | [PATCH 09/19] perf probe: Fix to show correct error message for $vars and $params | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:20:45 -0300 |
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From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fix to show correct error messages for $vars and $params because those special variables requires debug information to find the real variables or function parameters.
E.g. without this fix; ---- # perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.23.so getaddrinfo \$params Failed to write event: Invalid argument Please upgrade your kernel to at least 3.14 to have access to feature $params Error: Failed to add events. ----
Perf ends up with an error, but the message is not correct. With this fix, perf shows correct error message as below.
---- # perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.23.so getaddrinfo \$params The /usr/lib64/libc-2.23.so file has no debug information. Rebuild with -g, or install an appropriate debuginfo package. Error: Failed to add events. ----
Reported-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146831787438.17065.6152436996780110699.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c index 2b222a7955c9..fef9768df429 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c @@ -1547,7 +1547,9 @@ bool perf_probe_event_need_dwarf(struct perf_probe_event *pev) return true; for (i = 0; i < pev->nargs; i++) - if (is_c_varname(pev->args[i].var)) + if (is_c_varname(pev->args[i].var) || + !strcmp(pev->args[i].var, "$params") || + !strcmp(pev->args[i].var, "$vars")) return true; return false; -- 2.7.4
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