Re: [PATCH 4/6] perf report: hint .perfconfig error when invalid sorting key

[Jiri Olsa]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:49:17PM -0700, David Carrillo-Cisneros wrote:
> My fat-fingering of sort keys in .perfconfig was a common cause of
> perf report silently terminating without apparent error.
> 
> This was because 1) error in setup_sorting in cmd_report was ignored
> and 2) no message was log in UI browser that would prevent UI from
> exit before user prompt. Fix both.

there's UI init ahead of this code.. I had to move it
below your code to spot any error message

there's other errors further on.. perhaps we should move it even further ;-)
or cancel the ui before the error is printed

jirka


---
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index 19a69ca0e9c9..abcf3aadca9e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -982,11 +982,6 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv)
 	if (report.header || report.header_only || report.show_threads)
 		use_browser = 0;
 
-	if (strcmp(input_name, "-") != 0)
-		setup_browser(true);
-	else
-		use_browser = 0;
-
 	ret = setup_sorting(session->evlist);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		if (sort_order)
@@ -999,6 +994,11 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv)
 		goto error;
 	}
 
+	if (strcmp(input_name, "-") != 0)
+		setup_browser(true);
+	else
+		use_browser = 0;
+
 	if ((report.header || report.header_only) && !quiet) {
 		perf_session__fprintf_info(session, stdout,
 					   report.show_full_info);