Re: [PATCH] perf: Do not check PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT on syscall read path

From: Stephane Eranian
Date: Mon Sep 15 2014 - 06:29:56 EST


On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Peter,
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 04:31:07PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> >> Revert PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT check on read syscall path.
> >> It breaks standard way to read counter, which is to open
> >> the counter, wait for the monitored process to die and
> >> read the counter.
> >>
> >> Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks!
> Still don't see this fix in tip.git.
>
Still not there. This is a problem.

>
> >> ---
> >> kernel/events/core.c | 3 +--
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> >> index d8cb4d21a346..6d1c9ce1643e 100644
> >> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> >> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> >> @@ -3600,8 +3600,7 @@ perf_read_hw(struct perf_event *event, char __user *buf, size_t count)
> >> * error state (i.e. because it was pinned but it couldn't be
> >> * scheduled on to the CPU at some point).
> >> */
> >> - if ((event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_ERROR) ||
> >> - (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT))
> >> + if (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_ERROR)
> >> return 0;
> >>
> >> if (count < event->read_size)
> >> --
> >> 1.8.3.1
> >>
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