Re: [PATCH 12/14] perf ftrace: Use pager for displaying result

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 6 May 2013 13:38:19 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:52:46AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:40:23 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 03:50:45PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:17:24 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 05:31:10PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> >> >> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> It's convenient to use pager when seeing many lines of result.
>> >> >> 
>> >> > for some reason I'm able to get any output for 'live' command only
>> >> > when using --no-pager option. I dont get any data for:
>> >> >
>> >> >   # ./perf ftrace live ls
>> >> >
>> >> >   not even ls output
>> >
>> > ok, now with your patch I get allways ls output correctly in pager
>> 
>> "ls output" only?  What about the ftrace outputs?
>> 
>> >
>> >> >
>> >> > But sometime I dont even get ftrace output for:
>> >> >
>> >> >   # ./perf --no-pager ftrace live ls
>> >> >
>> >> >   just ls output
>> >
>> > this one still persists
>> 
>> Hmm.. still hard to reproduce.. :(
>> 
>> As it's --no-pager mode, so that it can be reproduced for you without
>> this patch, right?
>
> right, I still see the second issue (not getting ftrace output)
> regardless of the patch being applied or not

Did you get the same result always?  What's the value of tracing_cpumask?

Could you please apply this debug patch below and run it again?

Thank you very much for your help!
Namhyung


diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
index f1ecfa207822..6b7aeae2dfa5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
@@ -40,9 +40,11 @@ struct perf_ftrace {
 };
 
 static bool done;
+static int _signal;
 
 static void sig_handler(int sig __maybe_unused)
 {
+	_signal = sig;
 	done = true;
 }
 
@@ -218,6 +220,20 @@ static int do_ftrace_live(struct perf_ftrace *ftrace)
 
 	perf_evlist__start_workload(ftrace->evlist);
 
+	BUG_ON(ftrace->evlist->threads->map[0] != ftrace->evlist->workload.pid);
+
+	trace_file = get_tracing_file("tracing_on");
+	if (trace_file) {
+		int fd = open(trace_file, O_RDONLY);
+
+		BUG_ON(fd < 0);
+		BUG_ON(read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) < 0);
+		BUG_ON(buf[0] != '1');
+
+		close(fd);
+		put_tracing_file(trace_file);
+	}
+
 	while (!done) {
 		if (poll(&pollfd, 1, -1) < 0)
 			break;
@@ -231,6 +247,7 @@ static int do_ftrace_live(struct perf_ftrace *ftrace)
 		}
 	}
 
+	psignal(_signal, "perf");
 	write_tracing_file("tracing_on", "0");
 
 	/* read remaining buffer contents */