Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/2] perf stat: Close cork_fd when create_perf_stat_counter() failed

[James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>]

On 11/09/2024 13:19, Levi Yun wrote:
> When create_perf_stat_counter() failed, it doesn't close workload.cork_fd
> open in evlist__prepare_workload(). This could make too many open file
> error while __run_perf_stat() repeats.
> 
> Introduce evlist__cancel_workload to close workload.cork_fd and
> wait workload.child_pid until exit to clear child process
> when create_perf_stat_counter() is failed with COUNTER_FATAL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Levi Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>

> ---
>   tools/perf/builtin-stat.c |  4 ++++
>   tools/perf/util/evlist.c  | 14 +++++++++++++-
>   tools/perf/util/evlist.h  |  1 +
>   3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> index 661832756a24..954eb37ce7b8 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> @@ -763,6 +763,8 @@ static int __run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv, int run_idx)
> 
>   			switch (stat_handle_error(counter)) {
>   			case COUNTER_FATAL:
> +				if (forks)
> +					evlist__cancel_workload(evsel_list);
>   				return -1;
>   			case COUNTER_RETRY:
>   				goto try_again;
> @@ -804,6 +806,8 @@ static int __run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv, int run_idx)
> 
>   				switch (stat_handle_error(counter)) {
>   				case COUNTER_FATAL:
> +					if (forks)
> +						evlist__cancel_workload(evsel_list);
>   					return -1;
>   				case COUNTER_RETRY:
>   					goto try_again_reset;
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> index 3a719edafc7a..51a221679c92 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
>   #include <sys/mman.h>
>   #include <sys/prctl.h>
>   #include <sys/timerfd.h>
> +#include <sys/wait.h>
> 
>   #include <linux/bitops.h>
>   #include <linux/hash.h>
> @@ -1465,7 +1466,7 @@ int evlist__prepare_workload(struct evlist *evlist, struct target *target, const
>   		 * For cancelling the workload without actually running it,
>   		 * the parent will just close workload.cork_fd, without writing
>   		 * anything, i.e. read will return zero and we just exit()
> -		 * here.
> +		 * here (See evlist__cancel_workload()).
>   		 */
>   		if (ret != 1) {
>   			if (ret == -1)
> @@ -1546,6 +1547,17 @@ int evlist__start_workload(struct evlist *evlist)
>   	return 0;
>   }
> 
> +void evlist__cancel_workload(struct evlist *evlist)
> +{
> +	int status;
> +
> +	if (evlist->workload.cork_fd > 0) {
> +		close(evlist->workload.cork_fd);
> +		evlist->workload.cork_fd = -1;
> +		waitpid(evlist->workload.pid, &status, WNOHANG);
> +	}
> +}
> +
>   int evlist__parse_sample(struct evlist *evlist, union perf_event *event, struct perf_sample *sample)
>   {
>   	struct evsel *evsel = evlist__event2evsel(evlist, event);
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
> index cb91dc9117a2..12f929ffdf92 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
> @@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ int evlist__prepare_workload(struct evlist *evlist, struct target *target,
>   			     const char *argv[], bool pipe_output,
>   			     void (*exec_error)(int signo, siginfo_t *info, void *ucontext));
>   int evlist__start_workload(struct evlist *evlist);
> +void evlist__cancel_workload(struct evlist *evlist);
> 
>   struct option;
> 
> --
> LEVI:{C3F47F37-75D8-414A-A8BA-3980EC8A46D7}
>