Re: [PATCH] perf record: handle death by SIGTERM

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:24:23PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> perf data files cannot be processed until the header file is update
> which is done via an on_exit handler. If perf is killed due to a SIGTERM
> it does not run the on_exit hooks leaving the perf.data file in a
> random state which perf-report will happily spin on trying to read. As
> noted by Mike an easy reproducer is:
>   perf record -a -g & sleep 1; killall perf
> 
> Fix by catching SIGTERM like it does SIGINT.  Also need to remove the
> kill which was added via commit f7b7c26e.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> index cdf58ec..fff985c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> @@ -198,7 +198,6 @@ static void perf_record__sig_exit(int exit_status __maybe_unused, void *arg)
>  		return;
>  
>  	signal(signr, SIG_DFL);
> -	kill(getpid(), signr);
>  }
>  
>  static bool perf_evlist__equal(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
> @@ -404,6 +403,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct perf_record *rec, int argc, const char **argv)
>  	signal(SIGCHLD, sig_handler);
>  	signal(SIGINT, sig_handler);
>  	signal(SIGUSR1, sig_handler);
> +	signal(SIGTERM, sig_handler);
>  
>  	if (!output_name) {
>  		if (!fstat(STDOUT_FILENO, &st) && S_ISFIFO(st.st_mode))
> -- 
> 1.7.10.1
> 

hi,
got a perf test hanging on me on latest acme's perf/core and bisected
it to this one. I separated reproducer so far but probably wont get to
it this week:

[jolsa@krava2 perf]$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid
1
[jolsa@krava2 perf]$ ./perf record -C 0 kill
Error:
You may not have permission to collect %sstats.
Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid:
 -1 - Not paranoid at all
  0 - Disallow raw tracepoint access for unpriv
  1 - Disallow cpu events for unpriv
  2 - Disallow kernel profiling for unpriv

jirka