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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue May 07 2013 - 02:29:56 EST



* Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is a good fix. I have run into this infinite loop in perf report
> many times.

Hm, perf record should really not assume much about the perf.data and
should avoid infinite loops ...

So while making perf.data more consistent on SIGTERM is a nice fix, perf
report should be fixed as well to detect loops and such.

Thanks,

Ingo
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