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Message-ID: <20190103111205.GA26933@krava>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 12:12:05 +0100
From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To: Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: acme@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
mingo@...hat.com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...ux.intel.com,
kan.liang@...el.com, yao.jin@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf stat: Fix endless wait for child process
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 03:40:45PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
> We hit a perf stat issue by using following script.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> sleep 1000 &
> exec perf stat -a -e cycles -I1000 -- sleep 5
>
> Since "perf stat" is launched by exec, so the "sleep 1000" would be
> the child process of "perf stat". The wait4() will not return because
> it's waiting for the child process "sleep 1000" to be end. So perf
> stat doesn't return even 5s passed.
>
> This patch lets the perf stat return when the specified child process
> is end (in this case, specified child process is "sleep 5").
>
> Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
thanks,
jirka
> ---
> tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> index 1410d66..63a3afc 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> @@ -561,7 +561,8 @@ static int __run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv, int run_idx)
> break;
> }
> }
> - wait4(child_pid, &status, 0, &stat_config.ru_data);
> + if (child_pid != -1)
> + wait4(child_pid, &status, 0, &stat_config.ru_data);
>
> if (workload_exec_errno) {
> const char *emsg = str_error_r(workload_exec_errno, msg, sizeof(msg));
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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