Commit-ID:  f816b3cc99804a9f771315331deb36abec47f5b4
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/f816b3cc99804a9f771315331deb36abec47f5b4
Author:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:35:42 -0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:02:23 -0300

tools lib fs debugfs: Check if debugfs is mounted when handling ENOENT

If debugfs was already mounted, then its a matter of not finding the
tracepoint, tell the user that perhaps a CONFIG_ setting is not enabled.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Don Zickus <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
---
 tools/lib/api/fs/debugfs.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/lib/api/fs/debugfs.c b/tools/lib/api/fs/debugfs.c
index bf9e216..d2b18e8 100644
--- a/tools/lib/api/fs/debugfs.c
+++ b/tools/lib/api/fs/debugfs.c
@@ -106,6 +106,13 @@ int debugfs__strerror_open(int err, char *buf, size_t 
size, const char *filename
 
        switch (err) {
        case ENOENT:
+               if (debugfs_found) {
+                       snprintf(buf, size,
+                                "Error:\tFile %s/%s not found.\n"
+                                "Hint:\tPerhaps this kernel misses some 
CONFIG_ setting to enable this feature?.\n",
+                                debugfs_mountpoint, filename);
+                       break;
+               }
                snprintf(buf, size, "%s",
                         "Error:\tUnable to find debugfs\n"
                         "Hint:\tWas your kernel compiled with debugfs 
support?\n"
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