From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1] perf test task-exit: Fix POLLHUP busy-loop race waiting for SIGCHLD
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 14:49:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261025214928.1225895-1-irogers@google.com> (raw)
In the kernel's do_exit(), perf_event_exit_task() runs before exit_mm()
and exit_notify() (which delivers SIGCHLD to the parent). Once
perf_event_exit_task() completes, PERF_RECORD_EXIT is written to the
ring buffer and POLLHUP is set on the perf event file descriptor.
In test__task_exit(), once POLLHUP is set on the fd, evlist__poll()
returns immediately on every call without blocking. If the child is
still in exit_mm()..exit_notify() on another CPU when the parent reads
PERF_RECORD_EXIT, exited is still 0 and the retry loop spins through all
1000 non-blocking poll() calls in less than a millisecond before SIGCHLD
is delivered.
Sleep briefly with usleep(1000) on subsequent retries (which also wakes
early on EINTR when SIGCHLD arrives), mark exited as volatile
sig_atomic_t, and reset exited and nr_exit on test entry.
Fixes: 791ce9c48c79 ("perf test: Avoid infinite loop for task exit case")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
tools/perf/tests/task-exit.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/task-exit.c b/tools/perf/tests/task-exit.c
index 9fac426ac2f9..1a9de2d13497 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/task-exit.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/task-exit.c
@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@
#include <errno.h>
#include <signal.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <perf/cpumap.h>
#include <perf/evlist.h>
#include <perf/mmap.h>
-static int exited;
-static int nr_exit;
+static volatile sig_atomic_t exited;
+static volatile int nr_exit;
static void sig_handler(int sig __maybe_unused)
{
@@ -55,6 +56,8 @@ static int test__task_exit(struct test_suite *test __maybe_unused, int subtest _
struct mmap *md;
int retry_count = 0;
+ exited = 0;
+ nr_exit = 0;
signal(SIGCHLD, sig_handler);
evlist = evlist__new_dummy();
@@ -135,6 +138,8 @@ static int test__task_exit(struct test_suite *test __maybe_unused, int subtest _
err = -1;
goto out_put_evlist;
}
+ if (retry_count > 1)
+ usleep(1000);
goto retry;
}
--
2.56.0.307.g5fe7bd680c-goog
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