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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 09:24:08AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Jiri and Peter,
> 
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:37:47 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:19:39PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:56:54PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> >> > 
> >> >   perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly
> >> >   commit f7b7c26e01e51fe46097e11f179dc71ce7950084
> >> >   Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
> >> >   Date:   Wed Jun 10 15:55:59 2009 +0200
> >> > 
> >> > but I dont think we need to do that
> >> 
> >> But but but, then you're re-introducing that fail again? That no good.
> 
> FYI, it's already gone with 804f7ac78803 ("perf record: handle death by
> SIGTERM").
> 
> >
> > well, I was trying the testcase you mentioned in the changelog
> > and it seemed to work for me.. ;-) I guess I was lucky to hit
> > the bash time window..
> >
> >   while :; do perf stat ./foo ; done
> >
> > so how does this work? bash will kill the loop if perf's wait
> > status is WIFSIGNALED?
> 
> I'm not sure but isn't it *bash* to catch signal and terminate the
> loop?  It seems the wait status of child has no business with the loop
> termination.  Am I missing something?
> 
>   $ cat suicide.c
>   #include <signal.h>
>   
>   int main(void)
>   {
>     raise(SIGTERM);
>     return 0;
>   }
>   

SIGTERM isn't the problem. SIGINT is. Typically when you run:

while :; do perf stat ./foo ; done

Its foo that is running, so when you press ^C, you'll SIGINT foo. foo
will then exit, perf stat will notice the exit, exit itself and because
the loop doesn't look at the return value of perf stat, simply
continues.

What I want, and fixed back then, is that if you press ^C foo
terminates, perf stat/record/etc. will finish, but then terminate with
the same signal. In that case bash finally sees the SIGINT and will in
fact terminate the loop.

try:

$ while :; do ./foo /bin/sleep 5 ; done

and try and break out using ^C

---
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[])
{
        pid_t pid = fork();
        if (!pid) /* child */ {
                execve(argv[1], argv+1, envp);
                perror("execve");
                return;
        }

        signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN);
        waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
        return 0;
}

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