Re: [PATCHv8 0/8] perf stat: Add scripting support

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 07:39:20PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:09:04PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > hi,
> > sending another version of stat scripting.
> > 
> > v8 changes:
> >   - check for stat callbacks properly [Namhyung]
> >   - used '#!/usr/bin/env python' for stat-cpi.py [Namhyung]
> >   - used tuple_set_u64 for storing u64 into python tuple [Namhyung]
> 
> While testing this I noticed I failed to notice that after adding all
> these new user meta events we have:
> 
>   [acme@zoo linux]$ perf stat -e cycles record usleep 1
> 
>    Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':
> 
>          1,049,367      cycles                                                      
> 
>        0.002616357 seconds time elapsed
> 
>   [acme@zoo linux]$ oldperf report --stdio
>   0xf0 [0x28]: failed to process type: 73
>   Error:
>   failed to process sample
>   # To display the perf.data header info, please use
>   # --header/--header-only options.
>   #
>   [acme@zoo linux]$ 
> 
> While it should just have ignored the user meta events if doesn't
> support and state that the perf.data file had no samples :-\
> 
> So I think I'll make perf_session__process_user_event() return 0
> for events it doesn't support, just adding a pr_debug(), ok?

ok, but please put there something more visible.. so it's obvious it was hit

jirka