Donate to e Foundation | Murena handsets with /e/OS | Own a part of Murena! Learn more

Skip to content
Commit 18425f13 authored by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Browse files

perf symbols: Save DSO loading errno to better report errors



Before, when some problem happened while trying to load the kernel
symtab, 'perf top' would show:

      ┌─Warning:───────────────────────────┐
      │The vmlinux file can't be used.     │
      │Kernel samples will not be resolved.│
      │                                    │
      │                                    │
      │Press any key...                    │
      └────────────────────────────────────┘

Now, it reports:

  # perf top --vmlinux /dev/null

      ┌─Warning:───────────────────────────────────────────┐
      │The /tmp/passwd file can't be used: Invalid ELF file│
      │Kernel samples will not be resolved.                │
      │                                                    │
      │                                                    │
      │Press any key...                                    │
      └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

This is possible because we now register the reason for not being able
to load the symtab in the dso->load_errno member, and provide a
dso__strerror_load() routine to format this error into a strerror like
string with a short reason for the error while loading.

That can be just forwarding the dso__strerror_load() call to
strerror_r(), or, for a separate errno range providing a custom message.

Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-u5rb5uq63xqhkfb8uv2lxd5u@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 17e44dc4
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Please register or to comment