perf ftrace: Detect workload failure
Currently there's no error message prompted if we failed to start workload. And we still get some trace which is confusing. Let's tell users what happened. Committer testing: Before: # perf ftrace nonsense |& head 5) | switch_mm_irqs_off() { 5) 0.400 us | load_new_mm_cr3(); 5) 3.261 us | } ------------------------------------------ 5) <idle>-0 => <...>-3494 ------------------------------------------ 5) | finish_task_switch() { 5) ==========> | 5) | smp_irq_work_interrupt() { # type nonsense -bash: type: nonsense: not found # After: # perf ftrace nonsense |& head workload failed: No such file or directory # type nonsense -bash: type: nonsense: not found # Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200510150628.16610-3-changbin.du@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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