Re: [PATCH v6 03/20] perf record: Introduce thread local variable

[Riccardo Mancini]

Hi,

thank you very much for your work for adding threading capabilites to perf
record. 
I did some testing on your entire patchset, especially checking for memory
issues using ASan. This is just the first of a couple of emails to point out
some issues I found.
I will also do additional tests in the future.

On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 13:52 +0300, Alexey Bayduraev wrote:
SNIP
> @@ -2220,18 +2275,20 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct record *rec, int argc,
> const char **argv)
>                 goto out_child;
>         }
>  
> -       if (!quiet)
> -               fprintf(stderr, "[ perf record: Woken up %ld times to write data
> ]\n", waking);
> -
>         if (target__none(&rec->opts.target))
>                 record__synthesize_workload(rec, true);
>  
>  out_child:
> +       record__stop_threads(rec, &waking);
> +out_free_threads:
>         record__free_thread_data(rec);
>         evlist__finalize_ctlfd(rec->evlist);
>         record__mmap_read_all(rec, true);
>         record__aio_mmap_read_sync(rec);

record__mmap_read_all should be moved before record__free_thread_data since it
uses the thread_data that's just been freed.
Furthermore, record__mmap_read_all should also be moved before the
out_free_threads label, since it cannot be called unless record__start_threads
succeeded, otherwise thread would be NULL and will cause a segfault (it happens
if there is an error somewhere else in perf, for example).

In my tests the following order works, but it should be double checked for
possible side-effects of this order change.

out_child:
        record__stop_threads(rec, &waking);
        record__mmap_read_all(rec, true);
out_free_threads:
        record__free_thread_data(rec);
        evlist__finalize_ctlfd(rec->evlist);
        record__aio_mmap_read_sync(rec);

Thanks,
Riccardo

> +       if (!quiet)
> +               fprintf(stderr, "[ perf record: Woken up %ld times to write data
> ]\n", waking);
> +
>         if (rec->session->bytes_transferred && rec->session->bytes_compressed) {
>                 ratio = (float)rec->session->bytes_transferred/(float)rec-
> >session->bytes_compressed;
>                 session->header.env.comp_ratio = ratio + 0.5;
SNIP