When a system call is not detected, the reason is either because the
system call ID is out of scope or failure to find the corresponding path
in the sysfs, trace__read_syscall_info() returns zero. Finally, without
returning an error value it introduces confusion for the caller.
This patch lets the function trace__read_syscall_info() to return
-EEXIST when a system call doesn't exist.
Fixes: b8b1033fcaa0 ("perf trace: Mark syscall ids that are not allocated to avoid unnecessary error messages")
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 22008a31684b..bd5513b15cde 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -1796,11 +1796,11 @@ static int trace__read_syscall_info(struct trace *trace, int id)
#endif
sc = trace->syscalls.table + id;
if (sc->nonexistent)
- return 0;
+ return -EEXIST;
if (name == NULL) {
sc->nonexistent = true;
- return 0;
+ return -EEXIST;
}
sc->name = name;
--
2.34.1
