From: He Kuang <[email protected]>
Indicate to check variable location range in error message when we got
failed to find the variable.
Before this patch:
$ perf probe --add 'generic_perform_write+118 bytes'
Failed to find the location of bytes at this address.
Perhaps, it has been optimized out.
Error: Failed to add events.
After this patch:
$ perf probe --add 'generic_perform_write+118 bytes'
Failed to find the location of the 'bytes' variable at this address.
Perhaps it has been optimized out.
Use -V with the --range option to show 'bytes' location range.
Error: Failed to add events.
Signed-off-by: He Kuang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Link:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[ Improve the error message based on lkml thread ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
---
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
index 5804086425aa..590a24a7f555 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -527,10 +527,12 @@ static int convert_variable(Dwarf_Die *vr_die, struct
probe_finder *pf)
ret = convert_variable_location(vr_die, pf->addr, pf->fb_ops,
&pf->sp_die, pf->tvar);
- if (ret == -ENOENT || ret == -EINVAL)
- pr_err("Failed to find the location of %s at this address.\n"
- " Perhaps, it has been optimized out.\n", pf->pvar->var);
- else if (ret == -ENOTSUP)
+ if (ret == -ENOENT || ret == -EINVAL) {
+ pr_err("Failed to find the location of the '%s' variable at
this address.\n"
+ " Perhaps it has been optimized out.\n"
+ " Use -V with the --range option to show '%s' location
range.\n",
+ pf->pvar->var, pf->pvar->var);
+ } else if (ret == -ENOTSUP)
pr_err("Sorry, we don't support this variable location yet.\n");
else if (ret == 0 && pf->pvar->field) {
ret = convert_variable_fields(vr_die, pf->pvar->var,
--
2.1.0
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