perf python: Use exception to propagate errors

We were using pr_debug to tell the user about not being able to parse a sample
where we should really use the python way of reporting errors: exceptions.

Fixes this problem:

[root@emilia ~]# python
>>> import perf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: eprintf
>>>
[root@emilia ~]

As we want to keep the objects linked in the python binding (and in the future
in a shared library) minimal.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-m9dba9kaluas0kq8r58z191c@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/python.c b/tools/perf/util/python.c
index 69436b3200a4..2dd1698e0932 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/python.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/python.c
@@ -694,14 +694,12 @@ static PyObject *pyrf_evlist__read_on_cpu(struct pyrf_evlist *pevlist,
 		err = perf_event__parse_sample(event, first->attr.sample_type,
 					       perf_sample_size(first->attr.sample_type),
 					       sample_id_all, &pevent->sample);
-		if (err) {
-			pr_err("Can't parse sample, err = %d\n", err);
-			goto end;
-		}
-
+		if (err)
+			return PyErr_Format(PyExc_OSError,
+					    "perf: can't parse sample, err=%d", err);
 		return pyevent;
 	}
-end:
+
 	Py_INCREF(Py_None);
 	return Py_None;
 }