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authorJanosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-01-11 16:17:43 +0100
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2016-01-26 15:58:12 +0100
commit400b3cb519a286421e61692058b980adb7554e1e (patch)
tree5dc7b94640f951e8aa9137ab59226f209b6c485c /scripts
parentf4109dba216f2df61a6098fdd7a6f2d2be4ac848 (diff)
scripts/kvm/kvm_stat: Fixup syscall error reporting
In 2008 a patch was written that introduced ctypes.get_errno() and set_errno() as official interfaces to the libc errno variable. Using them we can avoid accessing private libc variables. The patch was included in python 2.6. Also we need to raise the right exception, with the right parameters and a helpful message. Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-Id: <1452525484-32309-14-git-send-email-frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/kvm/kvm_stat9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat b/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat
index b5422f86ab..457624d9f3 100755
--- a/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat
+++ b/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat
@@ -287,10 +287,8 @@ filters['kvm_userspace_exit'] = ('reason', USERSPACE_EXIT_REASONS)
if EXIT_REASONS:
filters['kvm_exit'] = ('exit_reason', EXIT_REASONS)
-libc = ctypes.CDLL('libc.so.6')
+libc = ctypes.CDLL('libc.so.6', use_errno=True)
syscall = libc.syscall
-get_errno = libc.__errno_location
-get_errno.restype = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int)
class perf_event_attr(ctypes.Structure):
_fields_ = [('type', ctypes.c_uint32),
@@ -351,8 +349,9 @@ class Event(object):
group_leader = group.events[0].fd
fd = _perf_event_open(attr, -1, group.cpu, group_leader, 0)
if fd == -1:
- err = get_errno()[0]
- raise Exception('perf_event_open failed, errno = ' + err.__str__())
+ err = ctypes.get_errno()
+ raise OSError(err, os.strerror(err),
+ 'while calling sys_perf_event_open().')
if tracefilter:
fcntl.ioctl(fd, IOCTL_NUMBERS['SET_FILTER'], tracefilter)
self.fd = fd