Commit 85df6f68 authored Oct 27, 2009 by Marti Raudsepp Committed by Ingo Molnar Oct 27, 2009

perf tools: Notify user when unrecognized event is specified



Previously no indication was given about what went wrong.

Signed-off-by: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <03ec9ee96f17cef05424.1256603584@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

parent 5b2bb75a

tools/perf/util/parse-events.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -678,6 +678,8 @@ parse_event_symbols(const char *str, struct perf_event_attr attr)
		if (ret != EVT_FAILED)
		goto modifier;

		fprintf(stderr, "invalid or unsupported event: '%s'\n", *str);
		fprintf(stderr, "Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events\n");
		return EVT_FAILED;

		modifier: