Re: [PATCH] perf, tools: Make build fail on JSON parse error

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Mon Jul 24 2017 - 10:17:02 EST


On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 05:31:59PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Andi Kleen [andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Today, when a JSON file fails parsing the build continues,
> > but there are no json files built in, which is difficult to debug later.
> > Make the build stop on a parse error instead.
>
> I see the problem and we were being defensive to not break the build
> on architectures that don't yet have the PMU event lists. It will be
> good to check build on an architecture other than x86/powerpc.
>
> Also, following comments may no longer be applicable?

Isn't the Andi's change only to fail in case there's
a real error in process_one_file? I think you can still
have empty events dir.

jirka