linux-kernel - [BUG] perf: cannot read counts in per-process mode in 3.17-rcX

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Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2014 14:35:06 +0200
From:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, "mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	"ak@...ux.intel.com" <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Subject: [BUG] perf: cannot read counts in per-process mode in 3.17-rcX

Hi,

It seems something is seriously broken with perf_events in
3.17-rcX. I have tried rc3, rc4. No way to get any counts
out using perf stat in per-process mode. I am trying on Intel
and the PMU is correctly detected:

$ perf stat -e cycles ls
      <not counted> cycles

It is not a permission problem. It is a read problem!
$ strace perf stat -e cycles ls

perf_event_open(0x27d7e20, 2261, -1, -1, 0x8 /* PERF_FLAG_??? */) = 3
write(6, "\0", 1)                       = 1
close(6)                                = 0
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 2261
--- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=2261,
si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} ---
rt_sigreturn()                          = 2261
read(3, "", 24)                         = 0
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Looks like read() on the perf returns 0 (nothing read!).

It seems to work fine in system-wide mode. So I bet  there were some
recent changes in the way the events are stored when the process
terminates.

I think the perf tool is not to blame here. I see the same problem with my
libpfm4 toy examples.

Can you reproduce the problem on your system?
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