Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] perf tool: give user better message if preciseis not supported

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Sep 14 2012 - 14:07:19 EST


On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 11:00 -0700, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Understood and there have been suggestions on how to definitely state
> > what the kernel side did not like. I like Peter's last suggestion --
> > something along the lines of clearing attr on a failure except the
> > offending setting.
>
> I think ws need to use a new bit

Quite so, for all the reasons you list. But you like the general idea? I
wasn't sure I did, but it was the only thing I could come up with that
would sort of do what we need it to.

The fact that you destroy the user input is awkward, I don't think
there's another syscall that behaves in this fashion.
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