Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] perf record: Propagate exit status of a command line workload

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Sun May 11 2014 - 20:05:54 EST


Hi Jiri,

On Sun, 11 May 2014 15:30:18 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 02:14:17PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> Currently perf record doesn't propagate the exit status of a workload
>> given by the command line. But sometimes it'd useful if it's
>> propagated so that a monitoring script can handle errors
>> appropriately.
>>
>> To do that, it got rid of exit handlers and run/call them directly in
>> the __cmd_record(). I don't see any reason why those are in a form of
>> exit handlers in the first place. Also it cleaned up the resource
>> management code in record__exit().
>
> so in this last change we keep one exit handler, please update
> the changelog

Okay.

>
>>
>> With this change, perf record returns the child exit status in case of
>> normal termination and send signal to itself when terminated by signal.
>>
>
> SNIP
>
>>
>> out_delete_session:
>> perf_session__delete(session);
>> - return err;
>> + return status;
>
> we dont set status correctly before the 'goto out_delete_session'
> in the following condition:
>
> err = perf_evlist__prepare_workload(rec->evlist, &opts->target,
> argv, file->is_pipe,
> workload_exec_failed_signal);
> if (err < 0) {
> pr_err("Couldn't run the workload!\n");
> goto out_delete_session;
> }
>
> so we dont propagate status correctly in case the above function fails:
>
> [jolsa@krava perf]$ ulimit -n 6
> [jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf record sleep 100
> failed to create 'go' pipe: Too many open files
> Couldn't run the workload!
> [jolsa@krava perf]$ echo $?
> 0
> [jolsa@krava perf]$

Right. I'll send v7!

Thanks,
Namhyung
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