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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/kvm/kvm_stat9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat b/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat
index b5422f86ab..457624d9f3 100755
--- a/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat
+++ b/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat
@@ -287,10 +287,8 @@ filters['kvm_userspace_exit'] = ('reason', USERSPACE_EXIT_REASONS)
if EXIT_REASONS:
filters['kvm_exit'] = ('exit_reason', EXIT_REASONS)
-libc = ctypes.CDLL('libc.so.6')
+libc = ctypes.CDLL('libc.so.6', use_errno=True)
syscall = libc.syscall
-get_errno = libc.__errno_location
-get_errno.restype = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int)
class perf_event_attr(ctypes.Structure):
_fields_ = [('type', ctypes.c_uint32),
@@ -351,8 +349,9 @@ class Event(object):
group_leader = group.events[0].fd
fd = _perf_event_open(attr, -1, group.cpu, group_leader, 0)
if fd == -1:
- err = get_errno()[0]
- raise Exception('perf_event_open failed, errno = ' + err.__str__())
+ err = ctypes.get_errno()
+ raise OSError(err, os.strerror(err),
+ 'while calling sys_perf_event_open().')
if tracefilter:
fcntl.ioctl(fd, IOCTL_NUMBERS['SET_FILTER'], tracefilter)
self.fd = fd