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Steven Rostedt 3a3ffa2e82 tools lib traceevent: Report better error message on bad function args
When Jiri Olsa was writing a function callback for
scsi_trace_parse_cdb(), he thought that the traceevent library had a
bug in it because he was getting this error:

  Error: expected ')' but read ','
  Error: expected ')' but read ','
  Error: expected ')' but read ','
  Error: expected ')' but read ','

But in truth, he didn't have the write number of arguments for the
function callback, and the error was the library detecting the
discrepancy. A better error message would have prevented the confusion:

  Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' only expects 2 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_timeout has more
  Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' only expects 2 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_start has more
  Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' only expects 2 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_error has more
  Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' only expects 2 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_done has more

Or

  Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' expects 4 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_timeout only uses 3
  Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' expects 4 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_start only uses 3
  Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' expects 4 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_error only uses 3
  Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' expects 4 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_done only uses 3

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-a4c34w62vl0diitvxb7bt3er@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-12-06 10:39:54 -03:00
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lk tools lib lk: Uninclude linux/magic.h in debugfs.c 2013-09-19 15:08:53 -03:00
traceevent tools lib traceevent: Report better error message on bad function args 2013-12-06 10:39:54 -03:00