From 91b4eaea93f5be95f4477554399680a53aff2343 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:39:17 +0200 Subject: perf report: Warn on callchain output request from non-callchain file perf report segfaults while trying to handle callchains from a non callchain data file. Instead of a segfault, print a useful message to the user. Reported-by: Jens Axboe Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Anton Blanchard Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/perf') diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c index fa937f5c3c3..9f9575afab0 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c @@ -1684,9 +1684,19 @@ static int __cmd_report(void) sample_type = perf_header__sample_type(); - if (sort__has_parent && !(sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN)) { - fprintf(stderr, "selected --sort parent, but no callchain data\n"); - exit(-1); + if (!(sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN)) { + if (sort__has_parent) { + fprintf(stderr, "selected --sort parent, but no" + " callchain data. Did you call" + " perf record without -g?\n"); + exit(-1); + } + if (callchain) { + fprintf(stderr, "selected -c but no callchain data." + " Did you call perf record without" + " -g?\n"); + exit(-1); + } } if (load_kernel() < 0) { -- cgit v1.2.3