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From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	 Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	 Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 03/14] perf test: Drain pipe after child finishes to avoid losing output
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 16:04:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260513230450.529380-4-irogers@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260513230450.529380-1-irogers@google.com>

When running tests in parallel, the parent process reads output from
the child's pipe. However, it might exit the loop as soon as the
child is detected as finished, potentially missing data that arrived
in the pipe just after the last poll or before the loop terminated.

Address this by draining the pipe after the main loop in finish_test.

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
 tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c b/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
index 06507066213b..e88a5f72faed 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
@@ -482,6 +482,16 @@ static void finish_test(struct child_test **child_tests, int running_test, int c
 		if (err_done)
 			err_done = check_if_command_finished(&child_test->process);
 	}
+	/* Drain any remaining data from the pipe. */
+	if (err > 0) {
+		char buf[512];
+		ssize_t len;
+
+		while ((len = read(err, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1)) > 0) {
+			buf[len] = '\0';
+			strbuf_addstr(&err_output, buf);
+		}
+	}
 	if (perf_use_color_default && last_running != -1) {
 		/* Erase "Running (.. active)" line printed before poll/sleep. */
 		fprintf(debug_file(), PERF_COLOR_DELETE_LINE);
-- 
2.54.0.563.g4f69b47b94-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-13 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-13 23:04 [PATCH v1 00/14] perf test: Harness improvements Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 01/14] perf jevents.py: Make generated C code more kernel style Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 02/14] perf pmu-events: Add API to get metric table name and iterate tables Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` Ian Rogers [this message]
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 04/14] perf test: Support dynamic test suites with setup callback and private data Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 05/14] perf test pmu-events: A sub-test per metric table Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 06/14] perf test: Refactor parallel poll loop to drain all pipes simultaneously Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 07/14] perf test: Show snippet failure output for verbose=1 Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 08/14] perf test: Add summary reporting Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 09/14] perf test: Fix subtest status alignment for multi-digit indexes Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 10/14] perf test: Skip shebang and SPDX comments in shell test descriptions Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 11/14] perf test: Split monolithic 'util' test suite into sub-tests Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 12/14] perf test: Add -j/--junit option for JUnit XML test reports Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 13/14] perf test: Add shell test to validate JUnit XML reporting output Ian Rogers
2026-05-13 23:04 ` [PATCH v1 14/14] perf test: Remove /usr/bin/cc dependency from Intel PT shell test Ian Rogers

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