perf stat: better error message for unsupported events
authorDavid Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Sun, 9 Jan 2011 18:21:12 +0000 (11:21 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:34:53 +0000 (11:34 -0200)
commit5a3446bc648d86a99a895e93d28d7df00bbbfb3c
treebc292838c295c6ce6918e485a0454d9a0f1f51f2
parente462dc553ea5e09d4713e7c35a11ed331dc6f369
perf stat: better error message for unsupported events

For unsupported events (e.g., H/W events when running in a VM)
perf stat currently fails with the error message:

      Error: open_counter returned with 2 (No such file or directory).
    /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

      Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

dmesg is of no help and it is not clear as to why it fails to
open the counter. This patch changes the error message to

      Error: cache-misses event is not supported.
      Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
LPU-Reference: <1294597272-17335-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c