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authorJin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>2018-01-10 23:00:26 +0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-01-17 10:23:34 -0300
commiteb0b419eff8cf51af8e16cc8c5d2a92d19824266 (patch)
treecd11cef74729146a9b3533b9a5021fd8ea3a77af /tools/perf
parent0d3dcc0ef13d9d78132d7d6ae068c17ed858e65e (diff)
downloadlinux-eb0b419eff8cf51af8e16cc8c5d2a92d19824266.tar.bz2
perf report: Improve error msg when no first/last sample time found
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 <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515596433-24653-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-report.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
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 @@ repeat:
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;
}