[PATCH 03/10] perf evlist: Monitor POLLERR and POLLHUP events too

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Aug 22 2014 - 17:02:24 EST


From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

We want to know when the fd went away, like when a monitored thread
exits.

If we do not monitor such events, then the tools will wait forever on
events from a vanished thread, like when running:

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

This builds upon the kernel patch by Jiri Olsa that actually makes a
poll on those file descriptors to return POLLHUP.

It is also needed to change the tools to use
perf_evlist__filter_pollfd() to check if there are remainings fds to
monitor or if all are gone, in which case they will exit the
poll/mmap/read loop.

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-a4fslwspov0bs69nj825hqpq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index bd7896073d10..cddc700d718f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ void perf_evlist__add_pollfd(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int fd)
{
fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
evlist->pollfd[evlist->nr_fds].fd = fd;
- evlist->pollfd[evlist->nr_fds].events = POLLIN;
+ evlist->pollfd[evlist->nr_fds].events = POLLIN | POLLERR | POLLHUP;
evlist->nr_fds++;
}

--
1.9.3

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