Re: [BUG] perf: can not resolve symbols for forked threads

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:39:42AM +0000, Tony Lu wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I got the below output that shows perf can not resolve symbols for
> forked threads. I did a system-wide collection from all CPUs after the
> application hello run.

There's no fork() in... :-)

> #include <pthread.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #define NUM_THREADS     5
> 
> void foo(void)
> {
>   long i = 1000000000;
>   while (i--) {
>     ;
>   }
> }
> 
> void *PrintHello(void *threadid)
> {
>    long tid;
>    tid = (long)threadid;
>    printf("Hello World! It's me, thread #%ld!\n", tid);
>    foo();
>    pthread_exit(NULL);
> }
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>    pthread_t threads[NUM_THREADS];
>    int rc;
>    long t;
>    for(t=0;t<NUM_THREADS;t++){
>      printf("In main: creating thread %ld\n", t);
>      rc = pthread_create(&threads[t], NULL, PrintHello, (void *)t);
>      if (rc){
>        printf("ERROR; return code from pthread_create() is %d\n", rc);
>        exit(-1);
>        }
>      }
> 
>    /* Last thing that main() should do */
>    pthread_exit(NULL);
> }

That pthread_exit() is the problem; this results in:

29456 pts/23   Zl     0:00          |               \_ [hello] <defunct>

You want to wait for the threads to complete using pthread_join().

I suspect the defunct state hides the process.