Re: [PATCH RFC V6 4/6] perf,tool: per-event time support

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 08:21:37AM -0400, Kan Liang wrote:

SNIP

>  
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> index 09bee93..b10a5c0 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> @@ -603,6 +603,11 @@ do {									   \
>  		 * attr->branch_sample_type = term->val.num;
>  		 */
>  		break;
> +	case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_TIME:
> +		CHECK_TYPE_VAL(NUM);
> +		if (term->val.num > 1)
> +			return -EINVAL;

you might want to add the error info stuff to get:

[jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf record -e 'cpu/cpu-cycles,time=111111111/' --no-timestamp ls
event syntax error: '..es,time=111111111/'
                               \___ expected 0 or 1


---
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index b10a5c03ec3e..a6cb9afc20e2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -605,8 +605,11 @@ do {									   \
 		break;
 	case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_TIME:
 		CHECK_TYPE_VAL(NUM);
-		if (term->val.num > 1)
+		if (term->val.num > 1) {
+			err->str = strdup("expected 0 or 1");
+			err->idx = term->err_val;
 			return -EINVAL;
+		}
 		break;
 	case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NAME:
 		CHECK_TYPE_VAL(STR);