perf evsel: Introduce perf_evsel__open_strerror method
That consolidates the error messages in 'record', 'stat' and 'top', that
now get a consistent set of messages and allow other tools to use the
new method to report problems using whatever UI toolkit.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
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-1cudb7wl996kz7ilz83ctvhr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index 26d8cfd..c68d1b8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -254,4 +254,7 @@
bool perf_evsel__fallback(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int err,
char *msg, size_t msgsize);
+int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
+ struct perf_target *target,
+ int err, char *msg, size_t size);
#endif /* __PERF_EVSEL_H */