From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932202AbeAQQNx (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:13:53 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:56232 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932166AbeAQQNv (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:13:51 -0500 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org A51F02177B Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=acme@kernel.org From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Jin Yao , Alexander Shishkin , Andi Kleen , Kan Liang , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 24/32] perf report: Improve error msg when no first/last sample time found Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:12:14 -0300 Message-Id: <20180117161222.15611-25-acme@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.14.3 In-Reply-To: <20180117161222.15611-1-acme@kernel.org> References: <20180117161222.15611-1-acme@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jin Yao The following message will be returned to user when executing 'perf report --time' if perf data file doesn't contain the first/last sample time. "HINT: no first/last sample time found in perf data. Please use latest perf binary to execute 'perf record' (if '--buildid-all' is enabled, needs to set '--timestamp-boundary')." Signed-off-by: Jin Yao Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515596433-24653-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c index 6593779224d5..7d4f0a5de326 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c @@ -1300,7 +1300,9 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv) if (perf_time__parse_str(report.ptime_range, report.time_str) != 0) { if (session->evlist->first_sample_time == 0 && session->evlist->last_sample_time == 0) { - pr_err("No first/last sample time in perf data\n"); + pr_err("HINT: no first/last sample time found in perf data.\n" + "Please use latest perf binary to execute 'perf record'\n" + "(if '--buildid-all' is enabled, please set '--timestamp-boundary').\n"); return -EINVAL; } -- 2.14.3