perf tools: Warn while running perf trace without sample

When a user runs perf trace using an input with logged
counters without PERF_SAMPLE_RAW attribute, warn by giving a
nice tip.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1250543271-8383-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index b160a9f61bf3..88eef71bce6d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@ static int __cmd_trace(void)
         header = perf_header__read(input);
         sample_type = perf_header__sample_type(header);
 
+        if (!(sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW))
+                die("No trace sample to read. Did you call perf record "
+                    "without -R?");
+
         if (load_kernel() < 0) {
                 perror("failed to load kernel symbols");
                 return EXIT_FAILURE;