Re: [PATCH] perf stat: Poll for monitored tasks being alive in fork mode

[Jiri Olsa]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 10:28:17AM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
> Following test shows the stat keeps running even if no longer
> task to monitor (mgen exits at ~5s).
> 
> perf stat -e cycles -p `pgrep mgen` -I1000 -- sleep 10
>             time             counts unit events
>      1.000148916      1,308,365,864      cycles
>      2.000379171      1,297,269,875      cycles
>      3.000556719      1,297,187,078      cycles
>      4.000914241        761,261,827      cycles
>      5.001306091      <not counted>      cycles
>      6.001676881      <not counted>      cycles
>      7.002046336      <not counted>      cycles
>      8.002405651      <not counted>      cycles
>      9.002766625      <not counted>      cycles
>     10.001395827      <not counted>      cycles
> 
> We'd better finish stat immediately if there's no longer task to
> monitor.
> 
> After:
> 
> perf stat -e cycles -p `pgrep mgen` -I1000 -- sleep 10
>             time             counts unit events
>      1.000180062      1,236,592,661      cycles
>      2.000421539      1,223,733,572      cycles
>      3.000609910      1,297,047,663      cycles
>      4.000807545      1,297,215,816      cycles
>      5.001001578      1,297,208,032      cycles
>      6.001390345        582,343,659      cycles
> sleep: Terminated
> 
> Now the stat exits immediately when the monitored tasks ends.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> index 63a3afc..71f3bc8 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> @@ -553,6 +553,13 @@ static int __run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv, int run_idx)
>  
>  		if (interval || timeout) {
>  			while (!waitpid(child_pid, &status, WNOHANG)) {
> +				if (!is_target_alive(&target,
> +					evsel_list->threads) &&
> +					(child_pid != -1)) {

do we need that child_pid check? we just returned from waitpid
so we should be ok.. we just make the race window smaller

could we just do:

				if (!is_target_alive(&target, evsel_list->threads)) {
					kill(child_pid, SIGTERM);
					break;
				}

also I'm not sure we should do this only under new option,
as it might break people's scripts.. thoughts?

jirka

> +					kill(child_pid, SIGTERM);
> +					break;
> +				}
> +
>  				nanosleep(&ts, NULL);
>  				if (timeout)
>  					break;
> -- 
> 2.7.4
>