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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-07-31 11:58:57 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-07-31 11:58:57 -0300
commit739e2edc848af30fefa66d6c422c00ca9a701c06 (patch)
treed49fbe91824a2d4861736069b93db15790664446 /tools/perf
parent95f04328e42dc7d1eb08f3cb38150c1f2ec09f57 (diff)
downloadlinux-739e2edc848af30fefa66d6c422c00ca9a701c06.tar.bz2
perf bpf: Show better message when failing to load an object
Before: libbpf: license of tools/perf/examples/bpf/etcsnoop.c is GPL libbpf: section(6) version, size 4, link 0, flags 3, type=1 libbpf: kernel version of tools/perf/examples/bpf/etcsnoop.c is 41200 libbpf: section(7) .symtab, size 120, link 1, flags 0, type=2 bpf: config program 'syscalls:sys_enter_openat' libbpf: load bpf program failed: Operation not permitted libbpf: failed to load program 'syscalls:sys_enter_openat' libbpf: failed to load object 'tools/perf/examples/bpf/etcsnoop.c' bpf: load objects failed After: (just the last line changes) bpf: load objects failed: err=-4009: (Incorrect kernel version) Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wi44iid0yjfht3lcvplc75fm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c
index cee658733e2c..3d02ae38ec56 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c
@@ -747,7 +747,9 @@ int bpf__load(struct bpf_object *obj)
err = bpf_object__load(obj);
if (err) {
- pr_debug("bpf: load objects failed\n");
+ char bf[128];
+ libbpf_strerror(err, bf, sizeof(bf));
+ pr_debug("bpf: load objects failed: err=%d: (%s)\n", err, bf);
return err;
}
return 0;