From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:58:23 +0000 (+0200) Subject: perf report: Print more expressive message in case of file open error X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a14832ff977e78d1982cdf78cdabb1f2320d9ac8;p=GitHub%2Fexynos8895%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal8895.git perf report: Print more expressive message in case of file open error Before: $ perf report failed to open file: No such file or directory After: $ perf report failed to open file: perf.data (try 'perf record' first) Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> --- diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c index 242e09ff3658..f053a7463dcf 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c @@ -1120,7 +1120,10 @@ static int __cmd_report(void) input = open(input_name, O_RDONLY); if (input < 0) { - perror("failed to open file"); + fprintf(stderr, " failed to open file: %s", input_name); + if (!strcmp(input_name, "perf.data")) + fprintf(stderr, " (try 'perf record' first)"); + fprintf(stderr, "\n"); exit(-1); }