From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751792AbdCAFiB (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:38:01 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-f195.google.com ([209.85.220.195]:35227 "EHLO mail-qk0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750738AbdCAFh7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:37:59 -0500 From: Len Brown To: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown Subject: [PATCH 42/44] tools/power turbostat: show error on exec Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:27:46 -0500 Message-Id: <0815a3d09baf2cd330f75020bdaad0f1adac0ecb.1488345270.git.len.brown@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0.161.g6610af872 In-Reply-To: <20170301052748.27810-1-lenb@kernel.org> References: <20170301052748.27810-1-lenb@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <678a3bd1b3de6d2ebf604e7d708bc8150bb667e9.1488345270.git.len.brown@intel.com> References: <678a3bd1b3de6d2ebf604e7d708bc8150bb667e9.1488345270.git.len.brown@intel.com> Reply-To: Len Brown Organization: Intel Open Source Technology Center Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Len Brown When turbostat is run in one-shot command mode, the parent takes the 'before' counter snapshot, fork/exec/wait for the child to exit, takes the 'after' counter snapshot, and prints the results. however, if the child fails to exec the command, it immediately returns, without indicating that anythign was wrong. Add an error message showing that exec failed: sudo turbostat sleeeep 4 ... turbostat: exec sleeeep: No such file or directory ... Note that the parent will still print out the statistics, because it can't tell the difference between the failed exec and a command that is purposefully returning the same status. Unfortunately, this may obscure the error message. However, if the --out parameter is used, the error message is evident on stderr. Reported-by: Wendy Wang Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c index 7af5f42a9792..2d758abecd56 100644 --- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c +++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c @@ -4525,6 +4525,7 @@ int fork_it(char **argv) if (!child_pid) { /* child */ execvp(argv[0], argv); + err(errno, "exec %s", argv[0]); } else { /* parent */ -- 2.11.0.161.g6610af872