[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/1] checkasm: improve Linux perf error message

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Wed Jul 19 21:27:27 EEST 2023


Report the failing system call name, as is convention, rather than just
a rather unhelpful "syscall".
---
 tests/checkasm/checkasm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/checkasm/checkasm.c b/tests/checkasm/checkasm.c
index 30e2dc6fed..f521d30b7c 100644
--- a/tests/checkasm/checkasm.c
+++ b/tests/checkasm/checkasm.c
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ static int bench_init_linux(void)
 
     state.sysfd = syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, &attr, 0, -1, -1, 0);
     if (state.sysfd == -1) {
-        perror("syscall");
+        perror("perf_event_open");
         return -1;
     }
     return 0;
-- 
2.40.1



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