Re: [PATCH] perf, tools: Stop perf stat -p when profiled process exits v3

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 9/13/12 9:58 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> When counting a process with perf stat -p check if the process died
> and exit collection if yes.
>
> v2: Add more checks, handle non -p again. Handle /proc not there.
> v3: Handle multi pid case. Fix non /proc error path
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>   tools/perf/builtin-stat.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
>   1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> index 861f0ae..b5e7df2 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> @@ -536,7 +536,19 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
>   		if (WIFSIGNALED(status))
>   			psignal(WTERMSIG(status), argv[0]);
>   	} else {
> -		while(!done) sleep(1);
> +		char piddir[40];
> +		int check_proc = target.pid &&
> +				 access("/proc", X_OK) == 0 &&
> +				 !strchr(target.pid, ',');
> +		if (check_proc)
> +			snprintf(piddir, sizeof piddir, "/proc/%d",
> +				 atoi(target.pid));
> +		while(!done) {
> +			sleep(1);
> +			if (check_proc && access(piddir, X_OK) < 0 &&
> +			    errno == ENOENT)
> +				break;
> +		}
>   	}

I still think this is the wrong approach. A more complete solution would 
monitor all of the targets given by the user. e.g.,

1. create a perf_target__parse_pid - all it needs to do is:
    struct strlist *slist = strlist__new(false, pid_str);
and save that into the target struct. That line is currently done in 
thread_map.c, thread_map__new_by_pid_str() and 
thread_map__new_by_tid_str. Those functions can be altered to take the 
slist instead of the string.

2. create a perf_target__is_alive that runs through each entry in the 
slist (strlist__for_each(pos, slist)) and checks that it still exists. 
As long as 1 target is alive it returns true. If no pid or tid is 
specified it always returns true.

The is_alive function can be used by perf-top, perf-stat and perf-record 
to know that its target has died so it can stop monitoring.


David