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>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 5fb8723..1cb3436 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -757,8 +757,10 @@
al.map == machine->vmlinux_maps[MAP__FUNCTION] &&
RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&al.map->dso->symbols[MAP__FUNCTION])) {
if (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name) {
- ui__warning("The %s file can't be used.\n%s",
- symbol_conf.vmlinux_name, msg);
+ char serr[256];
+ dso__strerror_load(al.map->dso, serr, sizeof(serr));
+ ui__warning("The %s file can't be used: %s\n%s",
+ symbol_conf.vmlinux_name, serr, msg);
} else {
ui__warning("A vmlinux file was not found.\n%s",
msg);