Re: [PATCH] perf record: handle death by SIGTERM

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 5/6/13 12:24 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> perf data files cannot be processed until the header file is update

yuk, that is supposed to say "until the header is updated"

David

> which is done via an on_exit handler. If perf is killed due to a SIGTERM
> it does not run the on_exit hooks leaving the perf.data file in a
> random state which perf-report will happily spin on trying to read. As
> noted by Mike an easy reproducer is:
>    perf record -a -g & sleep 1; killall perf
>
> Fix by catching SIGTERM like it does SIGINT.  Also need to remove the
> kill which was added via commit f7b7c26e.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> ---
>   tools/perf/builtin-record.c |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> index cdf58ec..fff985c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> @@ -198,7 +198,6 @@ static void perf_record__sig_exit(int exit_status __maybe_unused, void *arg)
>   		return;
>
>   	signal(signr, SIG_DFL);
> -	kill(getpid(), signr);
>   }
>
>   static bool perf_evlist__equal(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
> @@ -404,6 +403,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct perf_record *rec, int argc, const char **argv)
>   	signal(SIGCHLD, sig_handler);
>   	signal(SIGINT, sig_handler);
>   	signal(SIGUSR1, sig_handler);
> +	signal(SIGTERM, sig_handler);
>
>   	if (!output_name) {
>   		if (!fstat(STDOUT_FILENO, &st) && S_ISFIFO(st.st_mode))
>