perf session: fix error message on failure to open perf.data

If we cannot open our data file, print strerror(errno) for a more
comprehensible error message; and only suggest 'perf record' on ENOENT.

In particular, this fixes the nonsensical advice when:

    % sudo perf record sleep 1
    [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
    [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.009 MB perf.data (~381 samples) ]
    % perf trace
    failed to open file: perf.data  (try 'perf record' first)
    %

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LPU-Reference: <20100612033615.GA24731@hexapodia.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 8f83a1835766e5d1a6e509547d14559529bbba23..0564a5cfb12ebbd05dd56d239427db31ba4a5126 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ static int perf_session__open(struct perf_session *self, bool force)
 
        self->fd = open(self->filename, O_RDONLY);
        if (self->fd < 0) {
-               pr_err("failed to open file: %s", self->filename);
-               if (!strcmp(self->filename, "perf.data"))
+               int err = errno;
+
+               pr_err("failed to open %s: %s", self->filename, strerror(err));
+               if (err == ENOENT && !strcmp(self->filename, "perf.data"))
                        pr_err("  (try 'perf record' first)");
                pr_err("\n");
                return -errno;