Re: [PATCH] perf tools: intel-pt: fix endless record after being terminated

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 03:42:11PM +0800, Wei Li wrote:
> In __cmd_record(), when receiving SIGINT(ctrl + c), a done flag will
> be set and the event list will be disabled by evlist__disable() once.
> 
> While in auxtrace_record.read_finish(), the related events will be
> enabled again, if they are continuous, the recording seems to be endless.
> 
> If the intel_pt event is disabled, we don't enable it again here.
> 
> Before the patch:
> huawei@huawei-2288H-V5:~/linux-5.5-rc4/tools/perf$ ./perf record -e \
> intel_pt//u -p 46803
> ^C^C^C^C^C^C
> 
> After the patch:
> huawei@huawei-2288H-V5:~/linux-5.5-rc4/tools/perf$ ./perf record -e \
> intel_pt//u -p 48591
> ^C[ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
> Warning:
> AUX data lost 504 times out of 4816!
> 
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2024.405 MB perf.data ]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 10 +++++++---
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
> index 20df442fdf36..1e96afcd8646 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
> @@ -1173,9 +1173,13 @@ static int intel_pt_read_finish(struct auxtrace_record *itr, int idx)
>  	struct evsel *evsel;
>  
>  	evlist__for_each_entry(ptr->evlist, evsel) {
> -		if (evsel->core.attr.type == ptr->intel_pt_pmu->type)
> -			return perf_evlist__enable_event_idx(ptr->evlist, evsel,
> -							     idx);
> +		if (evsel->core.attr.type == ptr->intel_pt_pmu->type) {
> +			if (evsel->disabled)
> +				return 0;
> +			else
> +				return perf_evlist__enable_event_idx(
> +						ptr->evlist, evsel, idx);

what's the logic behind enabling the event in here?

thanks,
jirka