Re: [PATCH 06/12] perf, tools, probe: Support a quiet argument for debug info open

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Nov 28 2017 - 22:39:53 EST


On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:14:00PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:23:15 -0800
> Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add a extra quiet argument to the debug info open / probe finder
> > code that allows perf script to make them quieter. Otherwise
> > we may end up with too many error messages when lots of
> > instructions fail debug info parsing.
>
> IMHO, this kind of simple suppress warning message would better
> be done with pr_* implementation (or its macro) since there
> maybe new message added or other function which has warning
> messages can be called in the future.

Do you really mean adding a special pr_ / global just for this case?

Seems less clean to me, but I can do it.

-Andi