Re: [PATCH] Don't spam trace report about missing fields

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 18:20 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Instead of spamming the output with complaints about missing fields, simply
> return an error to the caller, which can print something out or do something
> more intelligent about them.
> 
> Fixes kvm plugin tracing older kernels.

Hmm, what about just passing in err=0?

-- Steve

> 
> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
> ---
>  parse-events.c |   15 +++------------
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/parse-events.c b/parse-events.c
> index f0b0324..7a4c3a6 100644
> --- a/parse-events.c
> +++ b/parse-events.c
> @@ -4446,17 +4446,11 @@ int get_field_val(struct trace_seq *s, struct format_field *field,
>  		  const char *name, struct record *record,
>  		  unsigned long long *val, int err)
>  {
> -	if (!field) {
> -		if (err)
> -			trace_seq_printf(s, "<CANT FIND FIELD %s>", name);
> +	if (!field)
>  		return -1;
> -	}
>  
> -	if (pevent_read_number_field(field, record->data, val)) {
> -		if (err)
> -			trace_seq_printf(s, " %s=INVALID", name);
> +	if (pevent_read_number_field(field, record->data, val))
>  		return -1;
> -	}
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -4489,11 +4483,8 @@ void *pevent_get_field_raw(struct trace_seq *s, struct event_format *event,
>  
>  	field = pevent_find_field(event, name);
>  
> -	if (!field) {
> -		if (err)
> -			trace_seq_printf(s, "<CANT FIND FIELD %s>", name);
> +	if (!field)
>  		return NULL;
> -	}
>  
>  	/* Allow @len to be NULL */
>  	if (!len)