From 4f624685f92719565981eb6f8d9195bb578522a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Hunter Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:29:00 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382099356-4918-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 92ca541..d269dfa 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; } -- 2.7.4