Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf record: We should fork only if a program was specified to run

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:42 -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> 
> IOW: Now 'perf record -a' works, this was a bug introduced in:
> 
> 856e96608a72412d319e498a3a7c557571f811bd
> "perf record: Properly synchronize child creation"
> 
> Reported-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c |    9 +++++----
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> index 63136d0..90eedd9 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ static void atexit_header(void)
>  	perf_header__write(&session->header, output, true);
>  }
>  
> -static int __cmd_record(int argc __used, const char **argv)
> +static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
>  {
>  	int i, counter;
>  	struct stat st;
> @@ -422,7 +422,8 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc __used, const char **argv)
>  	signal(SIGCHLD, sig_handler);
>  	signal(SIGINT, sig_handler);
>  
> -	if (pipe(child_ready_pipe) < 0 || pipe(go_pipe) < 0) {
> +	if (target_pid == -1 && argc > 0 &&
> +	    (pipe(child_ready_pipe) < 0 || pipe(go_pipe) < 0)) {
>  		perror("failed to create pipes");
>  		exit(-1);
>  	}

Why bother?

> @@ -483,7 +484,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc __used, const char **argv)
>  
>  	atexit(atexit_header);
>  
> -	if (target_pid == -1) {
> +	if (target_pid == -1 && argc > 0) {
>  		pid = fork();
>  		if (pid < 0) {
>  			perror("failed to fork");

I'd write:

target_pid == -1 && !system_wide

> @@ -667,7 +668,7 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
>  
>  	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, record_usage,
>  			    PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
> -	if (!argc && target_pid == -1 && (!system_wide || profile_cpu == -1))
> +	if (!argc && target_pid == -1 && !system_wide)
>  		usage_with_options(record_usage, options);
>  
>  	symbol__init();

Right, so I was thinking -C would be enough to also start profiling..
clearly messed up the logic though :/