Re: [PATCH] perf tools: ignore zombie process for user profile

[Jiri Olsa]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:48:05PM -0500, kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If user has zombie process, the perf record -u will error out.
> Here is an example.
>  $ ./testd &
>  [1] 23796
>  $ sudo perf record -e cycles -u kan
>  Error:
>  The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 3 (No such process) for
>  event (cycles).
>  /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
>  No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?
> 
> The source code of testd is as below.
>  int main() {
> 
> 	if (fork())
> 	{
> 		while (1);
> 	}
> 	return 0;
>  }
> 
> Zombie process is dead process. It is meaningless to profile it.
> It's better to ignore it for user profile.

I recently posted different patch for same issue:
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=148153895827359&w=2

jirka