linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf record: handle death by SIGTERM

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Message-ID: <20130507062947.GB17705@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 7 May 2013 08:29:47 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf record: handle death by SIGTERM


* Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com> wrote:

> This is a good fix. I have run into this infinite loop in perf report 
> many times.

Hm, perf record should really not assume much about the perf.data and 
should avoid infinite loops ...

So while making perf.data more consistent on SIGTERM is a nice fix, perf 
report should be fixed as well to detect loops and such.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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