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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2013-10-18 15:29:00 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-10-21 11:19:06 -0300
commit4f624685f92719565981eb6f8d9195bb578522a3 (patch)
tree9a762801fea149864e3bb6643daf07fbb7cc0d49 /tools
parentdd44bc6be05e4a948124053c8105cfa581177554 (diff)
downloadlinux-4f624685f92719565981eb6f8d9195bb578522a3.tar.bz2
perf record: Improve write_output error message
Improve the error message from write_output() to say what failed to write and give the error number. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382099356-4918-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 92ca5419073b..d269dfa3ab08 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ static int write_output(struct perf_record *rec, void *buf, size_t size)
int ret = write(rec->output, buf, size);
if (ret < 0) {
- pr_err("failed to write\n");
+ pr_err("failed to write perf data, error: %m\n");
return -1;
}