Hi Masami,

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 03:17:12 +0000, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Fix to add a missing pair of braces for error path.
> Commit 36d789a4d75f (perf probe: Improve error message for
> unknown member of data structure) introduced this bug.
>
> Without this fix, defining an event with global variables
> is always failed, because it always returns -ENOENT if
> the argument is not a local variable.
>
>   ----
>   # perf probe -na "vfs_read smp_found_config"
>     Error: Failed to add events.
>   ----
>
> With this fix, you can set a global variable for the
> argument of new event.
>
>   ----
>   # perf probe -na "vfs_read smp_found_config"
>   Added new event:
>     probe:vfs_read       (on vfs_read with smp_found_config)
>
>   You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
>
>           perf record -e probe:vfs_read -aR sleep 1
>   ----
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com>
> Reported-by: Patrick Palka <patr...@parcs.ath.cx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>

Thanks,
Namhyung
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