Re: [PATCH] perf, tools: Stop perf stat -p when profiled process exits

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hi Andi,

On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:09:04 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> When counting a process with perf stat -p check if the process died
> and exit collection if yes.

I guess we need something similar for perf record as well.

>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> index 861f0ae..1313bb5 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> @@ -536,7 +536,14 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
>  		if (WIFSIGNALED(status))
>  			psignal(WTERMSIG(status), argv[0]);
>  	} else {
> -		while(!done) sleep(1);
> +		char piddir[40];
> +		snprintf(piddir, sizeof piddir, "/proc/%d", atoi(target.pid));
> +
> +		while(!done) {
> +			sleep(1);
> +			if (target.pid && access(piddir, X_OK) < 0 && errno == ENOENT)
> +				break;

The target.pid might have multiple pid's - e.g. perf stat -p 1234,5678

Thanks,
Namhyung