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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-05-13 14:28:32 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-05-15 16:36:47 -0300
commit4c1cf20334ae6e390e1ea787ef76c40a161370d1 (patch)
tree2c660f2d3ffa0892a193346ba81659b2c923ac54
parent8e5bc76f2ce39ffd48350d6dd9318d78d07b0bfa (diff)
perf parse-regs: Improve error output when faced with unknown register name
Add quotes around the register name and suggest using 'perf record -I?' to get the list of available registers. Before: # perf record -Idi,xmm20,xmm1 Warning: unknown register xmm20, check man page Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -I, --intr-regs[=<any register>] sample selected machine registers on interrupt, use -I ? to list register names # # perf record -Idi,xmm20,xmm1 Warning: unknown register "xmm20", check man page or run "perf record -I?" Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -I, --intr-regs[=<any register>] sample selected machine registers on interrupt, use -I ? to list register names # Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9a9hyuum8c0oggg86xd3sxc5@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c
index e6599e290f46..9cb187a20fe2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c
@@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ parse_regs(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset)
break;
}
if (!r->name) {
- ui__warning("unknown register %s,"
- " check man page\n", s);
+ ui__warning("Unknown register \"%s\", check man page or run \"perf record -I?\"\n", s);
goto error;
}