perf record: Use an eventfd to wakeup when done
The setting and checking of 'done' contains a rare race where the signal
handler setting 'done' is run after checking to break the loop, but
before waiting in evlist__poll(). In this case, the main loop won't wake
up until either another signal is sent, or the perf data fd causes a
wake up.
The following simple script can trigger this condition (but you might
need to run it for several hours):
for ((i = 0; i >= 0; i++)) ; do
echo "Loop $i"
delay=$(echo "scale=4; 0.1 * $RANDOM/32768" | bc)
./perf record -- sleep
30000000 >/dev/null&
pid=$!
sleep $delay
kill -TERM $pid
echo "PID $pid"
wait $pid
done
At some point, the loop will stall. Adding logging, even though perf has
received the SIGTERM and set 'done = 1', perf will remain sleeping until
a second signal is sent.
Committer notes:
Make this dependent on HAVE_EVENTFD_SUPPORT, so that we continue
building on older systems without the eventfd syscall.
Signed-off-by: Anand K Mistry <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200513122012.v3.1.I4d7421c6bbb1f83ea58419082481082e19097841@changeid
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>