Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] perf tools: Prompt error message for wrong terms of hw/sw events

[Jiri Olsa]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:11:49AM +0000, He Kuang wrote:
> Prompt proper error message when wrong config terms is specificed for
> hw/sw type perf events. This patch makes the original error prompt
> function formats_error_string() more generic, which only outputs the
> static config terms for hw/sw perf events, and prepends pmu formats
> for pmu events.
> 
> Before this patch:
> 
>   $ perf record -e 'cpu-clock/freq=200/' -a sleep 1
>   [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.028 MB perf.data (202 samples) ]
> 
>   $ perf record -e 'cpu-clock/freqx=200/' -a sleep 1
>   [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.042 MB perf.data (506 samples) ]

this output is not correct at this version,
patch 1/4 will make the above command fail

please change the example accordingly

jirka
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