perf symbols: Save DSO loading errno to better report errors
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:49:02 +0000 (11:49 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:08:43 +0000 (12:08 -0300)
commit18425f13a0890ac1e88a64276771c1ae10030b4a
treeb5970c64fcf4e8716dcfe865c5e0b1f22c6451d1
parent17e44dc46f035ca27847bbf75ffd3072ed49f13c
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri 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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-top.c
tools/perf/util/dso.c
tools/perf/util/dso.h
tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c