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Commit d0cc439b authored by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf trace: Validate syscall list passed via -e argument



The 'trace' tool was accepting any names passed and just looking if
syscalls returned via the raw_syscalls:* tracepoints were in that list,
leading to it accepting perf events and then never finding any, as those
are not valid syscall names, confusing users.

Fix it by checking each entry in the list using audit_name_to_syscall,
telling the user which entries are invalid and suggesting where to look
for valid syscall names.

E.g:

  [root@zoo ~]# trace -e open,foo,bar,close,baz
  Error: Invalid syscall bar, baz, foo
  Hint:	 try 'perf list syscalls:sys_enter_*'
  Hint:	 and: 'man syscalls'
  [root@zoo ~]#

Reported-by: default avatarFlavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4g1i3m1z6fzsrznn2umi02wa@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 6eedf416
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