[PATCH 04/10] perf record: Filter out POLLHUP'ed file descriptors

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Aug 22 2014 - 17:00:29 EST


From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

So that we don't continue polling on vanished file descriptors, i.e.
file descriptors for events monitoring threads that exited.

I.e. the following 'perf record' command now exits as expected, instead
of staying in an eternal loop:

$ sleep 5s &
$ perf record -p `pidof sleep`

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ftg46awsyfjc3axb0xm63oig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 87e28a4e33ba..b87708ce09c9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -467,6 +467,9 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct record *rec, int argc, const char **argv)
if (err > 0 || (err < 0 && errno == EINTR))
err = 0;
waking++;
+
+ if (perf_evlist__filter_pollfd(rec->evlist, POLLERR | POLLHUP) == 0)
+ done = 1;
}

/*
--
1.9.3

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