Re: [BUG] perf stat: hangs with -p and process completes

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 01:03:41PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 02:26:09PM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am running into a perf stat issue with the -p option which allows you
> > to attach to a running process. If that process happens to terminate
> > while under monitoring
> > perf hangs in there and never terminates. The proper behavior would be to stop.
> > I can see the issue in that the attached process is not a child, so
> > wait() would not work.
> > 
> > To reproduce:
> >   $ sleep 10 &
> >   $ perf stat -p $!
> > 
> > doing the same with perf record works, so there is a solution to this problem.
> 
> yea, we don't poll for the event state change in perf stat,
> but we do that in perf record.. also because the perf poll
> code in kernel is originaly meant for tracking the ring
> buffer state
> 
> maybe we could return EPOLLIN for alive events without ring
> buffer.. like below (totaly untested) and add polling for 
> event state into perf stat 
> 
> cc-ing perf folks
> 

on the second thought attached patch works as well
without kernel change

jirka


---
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index b86aba1c8028..d1028d7755bb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -409,6 +409,28 @@ static struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__reset_weak_group(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 	return leader;
 }
 
+static bool is_target_alive(struct target *_target,
+			    struct thread_map *threads)
+{
+	struct stat st;
+	int i;
+
+	if (!target__has_task(_target))
+		return true;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < threads->nr; i++) {
+		char path[PATH_MAX];
+
+		scnprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%d", procfs__mountpoint(),
+			  threads->map[i].pid);
+
+		if (!stat(path, &st))
+			return true;
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 static int __run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv, int run_idx)
 {
 	int interval = stat_config.interval;
@@ -579,6 +601,8 @@ static int __run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv, int run_idx)
 		enable_counters();
 		while (!done) {
 			nanosleep(&ts, NULL);
+			if (!is_target_alive(&target, evsel_list->threads))
+				break;
 			if (timeout)
 				break;
 			if (interval) {