[PATCH 2/2] perf bench futex: Handle spurious wakeups

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Fri May 08 2015 - 14:38:32 EST


Wrap futex_wait around a loop and catch for EINTR.
Either a spurious wakeup occurred or a signal interrupted
is, either way we need to block again.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/bench/futex-wake.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/futex-wake.c b/tools/perf/bench/futex-wake.c
index 929f762..e5e41d3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/futex-wake.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/futex-wake.c
@@ -60,7 +60,12 @@ static void *workerfn(void *arg __maybe_unused)
pthread_cond_wait(&thread_worker, &thread_lock);
pthread_mutex_unlock(&thread_lock);

- futex_wait(&futex1, 0, NULL, futex_flag);
+ while (1) {
+ if (futex_wait(&futex1, 0, NULL, futex_flag) != EINTR)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ pthread_exit(NULL);
return NULL;
}

--
2.1.4

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