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SubjectRe: [RFD] perf syscall error handling
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 02:25:48PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

> The way that peterz suggested, i.e. returning information about which
> perf_event_attr and which of the parameters was invalid/had issues could
> help with fallbacking/capability querying, i.e. tooling may want to use
> some features if available automagically, fallbacking to something else
> when that fails.
>
> We already do that to some degree in various cases, but for some if the
> only way that becomes available to disambiguate some EINVAL return is a
> string, code will start having strcmps :-\

OK, so how about we do both, the offset+mask for the tools and the
string for the humans?


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