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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf record: Fix continue profiling after draining the buffer
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Hello,

On 2021/2/19 1:09, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:20:53AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
>> Em Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 11:46:12AM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
>>> On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 07:35:22PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:50 PM Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> commit da231338ec9c098707c8a1e4d8a50e2400e2fe17 uses eventfd to solve rare race
>>>>> where the setting and checking of 'done' which add done_fd to pollfd.
>>>>> When draining buffer, revents of done_fd is 0 and evlist__filter_pollfd
>>>>> function returns a non-zero value.
>>>>> As a result, perf record does not stop profiling.
>>>>>
>>>>> The following simple scenarios can trigger this condition:
>>>>>
>>>>> sleep 10 &
>>>>> perf record -p $!
>>>>>
>>>>> After the sleep process exits, perf record should stop profiling and exit.
>>>>> However, perf record keeps running.
>>>>>
>>>>> If pollfd revents contains only POLLERR or POLLHUP,
>>>>> perf record indicates that buffer is draining and need to stop profiling.
>>>>> Use fdarray_flag__nonfilterable to set done eventfd to nonfilterable objects,
>>>>> so that evlist__filter_pollfd does not filter and check done eventfd.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: da231338ec9c (perf record: Use an eventfd to wakeup when done)
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 +-
>>>>> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 8 ++++++++
>>>>> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 4 ++++
>>>>> 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
>>>>> index fd3911650612..51e593e896ea 100644
>>>>> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
>>>>> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
>>>>> @@ -1663,7 +1663,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct record *rec, int argc, const char **argv)
>>>>> status = -1;
>>>>> goto out_delete_session;
>>>>> }
>>>>> - err = evlist__add_pollfd(rec->evlist, done_fd);
>>>>> + err = evlist__add_wakeup_eventfd(rec->evlist, done_fd);
>>>>> if (err < 0) {
>>>>> pr_err("Failed to add wakeup eventfd to poll list\n");
>>>>> status = err;
>>>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>>>>> index 05363a7247c4..fea4c1e8010d 100644
>>>>> --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>>>>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>>>>> @@ -572,6 +572,14 @@ int evlist__filter_pollfd(struct evlist *evlist, short revents_and_mask)
>>>>> return perf_evlist__filter_pollfd(&evlist->core, revents_and_mask);
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> +#ifdef HAVE_EVENTFD_SUPPORT
>>>>> +int evlist__add_wakeup_eventfd(struct evlist *evlist, int fd)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> + return perf_evlist__add_pollfd(&evlist->core, fd, NULL, POLLIN,
>>>>> + fdarray_flag__nonfilterable);
>>>>> +}
>>>>> +#endif
>>>>
>>>> Does it build when HAVE_EVENTFD_SUPPORT is not defined?
>>>
>>> yea, I was wondering the same.. but it's called only from
>>> code within HAVE_EVENTFD_SUPPORT ifdef
>>
>> Yes, this can't work on systems without eventfd, it will simply not
>> build, and why do we have to make the definition of this function
>> conditional on HAVE_EVENTFD_SUPPORT?
>>
>> I'm missing something :-\
>>
>> Yeah, this whole call to evlist__add_pollfd is already surrounded by
>> #ifdef HAVE_EVENTFD_SUPPORT:
>>
>> 1656 if (zstd_init(&session->zstd_data, rec->opts.comp_level) < 0) {
>> 1657 pr_err("Compression initialization failed.\n");
>> 1658 return -1;
>> 1659 }
>> 1660 #ifdef HAVE_EVENTFD_SUPPORT
>> 1661 done_fd = eventfd(0, EFD_NONBLOCK);
>> 1662 if (done_fd < 0) {
>> 1663 pr_err("Failed to create wakeup eventfd, error: %m\n");
>> 1664 status = -1;
>> 1665 goto out_delete_session;
>> 1666 }
>> 1667 err = evlist__add_pollfd(rec->evlist, done_fd);
>> 1668 if (err < 0) {
>> 1669 pr_err("Failed to add wakeup eventfd to poll list\n");
>> 1670 status = err;
>> 1671 goto out_delete_session;
>> 1672 }
>> 1673 #endif // HAVE_EVENTFD_SUPPORT
>> 1674
>> 1675 session->header.env.comp_type = PERF_COMP_ZSTD;
>> 1676 session->header.env.comp_level = rec->opts.comp_level;
>>
>> Jiri, does your Acked-by stands? Namhyung?
>
> Thanks tested and applied, together with Jiri's Tested-by,
>
> - Arnaldo
> .
>
Is this patch okay? Is there anything that needs to be modified?

Thanks,
Yang

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