Re: [PATCH 2/9] perf report: Ignore SIGPIPE for srcline

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Dec 20 2022 - 13:38:39 EST


Em Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:08:50AM -0800, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Hi Andi,
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 11:25 PM Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 12/15/2022 9:28 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > > It can get SIGPIPE when it uses an external addr2line process and the
> > > process was terminated unexpectedly. Let's ignore the signal and move
> > > on to the next sample. The sample will get the default srcline value
> > > anyway.
> >
> >
> > That's a bit dangerous -- if perf report output is piped to something
> > else you really want to stop on SIGPIPE.
>
> Maybe we can handle the pipe write errors gracefully, but it'd require
> more changes in many places.
>
> >
> > You would need to find a way to distinguish those cases.
>
> Hmm.. ok. I guess we can just drop this for now. With checking
> the .debug_line section, problematic cases should be gone mostly.

So just skip this one, ok, I'll cherry pick the rest. Done.

- Arnaldo