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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] perf record: Use an eventfd to wakeup when done
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 11:03:08 -0300
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To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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Em Wed, May 13, 2020 at 01:39:41PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:20:23PM +1000, Anand K Mistry wrote:
> > The setting and checking of 'done' contains a rare race where the signal
> > handler setting 'done' is run after checking to break the loop, but
> > before waiting in evlist__poll(). In this case, the main loop won't wake
> > up until either another signal is sent, or the perf data fd causes a
> > wake up.
> > 
> > The following simple script can trigger this condition (but you might
> > need to run it for several hours):
> > for ((i = 0; i >= 0; i++)) ; do
> >   echo "Loop $i"
> >   delay=$(echo "scale=4; 0.1 * $RANDOM/32768" | bc)
> >   ./perf record -- sleep 30000000 >/dev/null&
> >   pid=$!
> >   sleep $delay
> >   kill -TERM $pid
> >   echo "PID $pid"
> >   wait $pid
> > done
> > 
> > At some point, the loop will stall. Adding logging, even though perf has
> > received the SIGTERM and set 'done = 1', perf will remain sleeping until
> > a second signal is sent.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Anand K Mistry <amistry@google.com>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Changes in v3:
> > - Move done_fd creation to below session initialisation
> > - Close done_fd on exit
> > - Log errno when write(done_fd) fails
> 
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo