Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] perf record: Propagate exit status of a command line workload

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:27:33PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

SNIP

> Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> ---
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c |  121 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> index eb524f91bffe..b1523d8a6191 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> @@ -152,26 +152,6 @@ static void sig_handler(int sig)
>  	signr = sig;

looks like there's no use for 'signr' now.. could be removed

>  }
>  
> -static void record__sig_exit(int exit_status __maybe_unused, void *arg)
> -{
> -	struct record *rec = arg;
> -	int status;
> -
> -	if (rec->evlist->workload.pid > 0) {
> -		if (!child_finished)
> -			kill(rec->evlist->workload.pid, SIGTERM);
> -
> -		wait(&status);
> -		if (WIFSIGNALED(status))
> -			psignal(WTERMSIG(status), rec->progname);
> -	}
> -
> -	if (signr == -1 || signr == SIGUSR1)
> -		return;
> -
> -	signal(signr, SIG_DFL);

I was wondering what was this one for and found:

  perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly
  commit f7b7c26e01e51fe46097e11f179dc71ce7950084
  Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
  Date:   Wed Jun 10 15:55:59 2009 +0200

but I dont think we need to do that

thanks,
jirka