Currently, actions_perform() only ever sets the continue flag (when
performing the continue action), but never resets it. That leads to
RTLA continuing tracing even if the continue action was not performed in
the current iteration.
For example, the following command:
$ rtla timerlat hist -T 100 --on-threshold shell,command='
echo Spike!
if [ -f /tmp/a ]
then
exit 1
else
touch /tmp/a
fi' --on-threshold continue
should print Spike! at most once, because after hitting the threshold
for the first time, /tmp/a exists, the shell action will fail, and the
continue action is not performed. However, unless /tmp/a exists before
the measurement, it will print Spike! until stopped, as the continue
flag stays set.
Set the continue flag to false in the beginning of actions_perform() to
make RTLA continue only if the action was actually performed.
Fixes: 8d933d5c89e ("rtla/timerlat: Add continue action")
Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <[email protected]>
---
tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
index b0d68b5de08d..bf13d9d68f16 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
@@ -247,6 +247,8 @@ actions_perform(struct actions *self)
int pid, retval;
const struct action *action;
+ self->continue_flag = false;
+
for_each_action(self, action) {
switch (action->type) {
case ACTION_TRACE_OUTPUT:
--
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