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* Perf: fix build breakageZeev Tarantov2012-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [Patch not needed upstream as this is a backport build bugfix - gregkh gcc correctly complains: util/hist.c: In function ‘__hists__add_entry’: util/hist.c:240:27: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct hist_entry’) util/hist.c:241:23: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct hist_entry’) for this new code: + if (he->ms.map != entry->ms.map) { + he->ms.map = entry->ms.map; + if (he->ms.map) + he->ms.map->referenced = true; + } because "entry" is a "struct hist_entry", not a pointer to a struct. In mainline, "entry" is a pointer to struct passed as argument to the function. So this is broken during backporting. But obviously not compile tested. Signed-off-by: Zeev Tarantov <zeev.tarantov@gmail.com> Cc: Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* perf hists: Catch and handle out-of-date hist entry maps.David Miller2012-04-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 63fa471dd49e9c9ce029d910d1024330d9b1b145 upstream. When a process exec()'s, all the maps are retired, but we keep the hist entries around which hold references to those outdated maps. If the same library gets mapped in for which we have hist entries, a new map will be created. But when we take a perf entry hit within that map, we'll find the existing hist entry with the older map. This causes symbol translations to be done incorrectly. For example, the perf entry processing will lookup the correct uptodate map entry and use that to calculate the symbol and DSO relative address. But later when we update the histogram we'll translate the address using the outdated map file instead leading to conditions such as out-of-range offsets in symbol__inc_addr_samples(). Therefore, update the map of the hist_entry dynamically at lookup/ creation time. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120327.031418.1220315351537060808.davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* perf tools: Incorrect use of snprintf results in SEGVAnton Blanchard2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit b832796caa1fda8516464a003c8c7cc547bc20c2 upstream. I have a workload where perf top scribbles over the stack and we SEGV. What makes it interesting is that an snprintf is causing this. The workload is a c++ gem that has method names over 3000 characters long, but snprintf is designed to avoid overrunning buffers. So what went wrong? The problem is we assume snprintf returns the number of characters written: ret += repsep_snprintf(bf + ret, size - ret, "[%c] ", self->level); ... ret += repsep_snprintf(bf + ret, size - ret, "%s", self->ms.sym->name); Unfortunately this is not how snprintf works. snprintf returns the number of characters that would have been written if there was enough space. In the above case, if the first snprintf returns a value larger than size, we pass a negative size into the second snprintf and happily scribble over the stack. If you have 3000 character c++ methods thats a lot of stack to trample. This patch fixes repsep_snprintf by clamping the value at size - 1 which is the maximum snprintf can write before adding the NULL terminator. I get the sinking feeling that there are a lot of other uses of snprintf that have this same bug, we should audit them all. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120307114249.44275ca3@kryten Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* perf tools: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64Jiri Olsa2012-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 7a0153ee15575a4d07b5da8c96b79e0b0fd41a12 upstream. By adding following objects: bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o the x86_64 perf binary ended up with executable stack. The reason was that above object are assembler sourced and is missing the GNU-stack note section. In such case the linker assumes that the final binary should not be restricted at all and mark the stack as RWX. Adding section ".note.GNU-stack" definition to mentioned object, with all flags disabled, thus omiting this object from linker stack flags decision. Problem introduced in: $ git describe ea7872b v2.6.37-rc2-19-gea7872b Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783570 Reported-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328100848-5630-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> [ committer note: Backported fix to perf/urgent (3.3-rc2+) ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* perf evsel: Fix an issue where perf report fails to show the proper percentageNaveen N. Rao2012-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit a4a03fc7ef89020baca4f19174e6a43767c6d78a upstream. This patch fixes an issue where perf report shows nan% for certain perf.data files. The below is from a report for a do_fork probe: -nan% sshd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork -nan% packagekitd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork -nan% dbus-daemon [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork -nan% bash [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork A git bisect shows commit f3bda2c as the cause. However, looking back through the git history, I saw commit 640c03c which seems to have removed the required initialization for perf_sample->period. The problem only started showing after commit f3bda2c. The below patch re-introduces the initialization and it fixes the problem for me. With the below patch, for the same perf.data: 73.08% bash [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 8.97% 11-dhclient [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 6.41% sshd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 3.85% 20-chrony [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 2.56% sendmail [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork This patch applies over current linux-tip commit 9949284. Problem introduced in: $ git describe 640c03c v2.6.37-rc3-83-g640c03c Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120203170113.5190.25558.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6 Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk()Steven Rostedt2012-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 49908a1b25d448d68fd26faca260e1850201575f upstream. A update is made to the sched:sched_switch event that adds some logic to the first parameter of the __print_flags() that shows the state of tasks. This change cause perf to fail parsing the flags. A simple fix is needed to have the parser be able to process ops within the argument. Reported-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk()Steven Rostedt2011-12-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit d06c27b22aa66e48e32f03f9387328a9af9b0625 upstream. A update is made to the sched:sched_switch event that adds some logic to the first parameter of the __print_flags() that shows the state of tasks. This change cause perf to fail parsing the flags. A simple fix is needed to have the parser be able to process ops within the argument. Reported-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* perf probe: Fix to show correct error stringMasami Hiramatsu2011-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 44a56040a0037a845d5fa218dffde464579f0cab upstream. Fix perf probe to show correct error string when it fails to delete an event. The write(2) returns -1 if failed, and errno stores real error number. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111004104504.14591.41266.stgit@fedora15 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* perf symbols: Fix ppc64 SEGV in dso__load_sym with debuginfo filesAnton Blanchard2011-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit adb091846318f86e4f46c7d6a7b40d2f478abdbe upstream. 64bit PowerPC debuginfo files have an empty function descriptor section. I hit a SEGV when perf tried to use this section for symbol resolution. To fix this we need to check the section is valid and we can do this by checking for type SHT_PROGBITS. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110824065242.895239970@samba.org Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* perf tools: do not look at ./config for configurationJonathan Nieder2011-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea upstream. In addition to /etc/perfconfig and $HOME/.perfconfig, perf looks for configuration in the file ./config, imitating git which looks at $GIT_DIR/config. If ./config is not a perf configuration file, it fails, or worse, treats it as a configuration file and changes behavior in some unexpected way. "config" is not an unusual name for a file to be lying around and perf does not have a private directory dedicated for its own use, so let's just stop looking for configuration in the cwd. Callers needing context-sensitive configuration can use the PERF_CONFIG environment variable. Requested-by: Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net> Cc: 632923@bugs.debian.org Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110805165838.GA7237@elie.gateway.2wire.net Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* perf tools: Fix endian conversion reading event attr from file headerDavid Ahern2011-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit eda3913bb70ecebac13adccffe1e7f96e93cee02 upstream. The perf_event_attr struct has two __u32's at the top and they need to be swapped individually. With this change I was able to analyze a perf.data collected in a 32-bit PPC VM on an x86 system. I tested both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries for the Intel analysis side; both read the PPC perf.data file correctly. -v2: - changed the existing perf_event__attr_swap() to swap only elements of perf_event_attr and exported it for use in swapping the attributes in the file header - updated swap_ops used for processing events Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: paulus@samba.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310754849-12474-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* perf tools, x86: Fix 32-bit compile on 64-bit systemDavid Ahern2011-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 08a4a43fc407d780bdde36d98f89c0dbb2a6be6b upstream. Builds for 32-bit perf binaries on a 64-bit host currently fail with this error: [...] bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S: Assembler messages: bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:29: Error: bad register name `%rdi' bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:34: Error: invalid instruction suffix for `movs' bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:50: Error: bad register name `%rdi' bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:61: Error: bad register name `%rdi' ... The problem is the detection of the host arch without considering passed in flags. This change fixes 32-bit builds via: make EXTRA_CFLAGS=-m32 and 64-bit builds still reference the memcpy_64.S. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310420304-21452-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
*---. Merge branches 'perf-urgent-for-linus', 'sched-urgent-for-linus', ↵Linus Torvalds2011-06-19
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'timers-urgent-for-linus' and 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tools/perf: Fix static build of perf tool tracing: Fix regression in printk_formats file * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: clocksource: Make watchdog robust vs. interruption timerfd: Fix wakeup of processes when timer is cancelled on clock change * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, MAINTAINERS: Add x86 MCE people x86, efi: Do not reserve boot services regions within reserved areas
| * | | tools/perf: Fix static build of perf toolMathias Krause2011-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To build a statically linked version of the perf tool all needed libraries must be added in the correct order to get the symbols resolved. Currently this is broken when, e.g. python or newt support is enabled -- libpython needs libpthread which is an unconditional link dependency of the perf tool; libslang needs libm, another unconditional dependency. To solve the problem in the long run without the need to keep track of transitive library dependencies, simply make the linker look at the EXTLIBS multiple times until it has all symbols resolved. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308171818-20370-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-06-19
|\ \ \ \ | |_|/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression rcu: Simplify curing of load woes
| * | | rcu: Use softirq to address performance regressionShaohua Li2011-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread) introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded performance by about 40%. The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has 64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks, but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods. This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related processing to be done. Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes, perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.) This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context, so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'rc-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-06-16
|\ \ \ \ | |_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: kbuild: Call depmod.sh via shell perf: clear out make flags when calling kernel make kernelver
| * | | perf: clear out make flags when calling kernel make kernelverAndy Whitcroft2011-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When generating the perf version from the kernel version using 'make kernelver' it is necessary to clear out any MAKEFLAGS otherwise they may trigger additional output which pollute the contents. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* | | | Merge branch 'rc-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-06-09
|\| | | | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: perf: Use make kernelversion instead of parsing the Makefile kbuild: Hack for depmod not handling X.Y versions kbuild: Move depmod call to a separate script kbuild: Fix <linux/version.h> for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL kbuild: Fix KERNELVERSION for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL kbuild: silence Nothing to be done for 'all' message
| * | perf: Use make kernelversion instead of parsing the MakefileMichal Marek2011-06-09
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* | perf python: Fix argument name list of read_on_cpu()Frederic Weisbecker2011-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mandatory arguments need to be present in the argument name list, as well as optional arguments, otherwise python barfs: # ./python/twatch.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "./python/twatch.py", line 41, in <module> main() File "./python/twatch.py", line 32, in main event = evlist.read_on_cpu(cpu) RuntimeError: more argument specifiers than keyword list entries Hence, add cpu to the name list. Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1301588863-20210-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* | perf evlist: Don't die if sample_{id_all|type} is invalidArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2011-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes two more cases where the python binding would not load: . Not finding die(), which it shouldn't anyway, not good to just stop the world because some particular perf.data file is invalid, just propagate the error to the caller. . Not finding perf_sample_size: fix it by moving it from event.c to evsel, where it belongs, as most cases are moving to operate on an evsel object.o One of the fixed problems: [root@emilia ~]# python >>> import perf Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: perf_sample_size >>> [root@emilia ~]# Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1hkj7b2cvgbfnoizsekjb6c9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* | perf python: Use exception to propagate errorsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2011-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We were using pr_debug to tell the user about not being able to parse a sample where we should really use the python way of reporting errors: exceptions. Fixes this problem: [root@emilia ~]# python >>> import perf Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: eprintf >>> [root@emilia ~] As we want to keep the objects linked in the python binding (and in the future in a shared library) minimal. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-m9dba9kalu