perf: Add PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT state for events with exited task

Adding new perf event state to indicate that the monitored task has
exited.  In this case the event stays alive until the owner task exits
or close the event fd while providing the last data through the read
syscall and ring buffer.

Instead it needs to propagate the error info (monitored task has died)
via poll and read  syscalls by  returning POLLHUP and 0 respectively.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140811120102.GY9918@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-t5y3w8jjx6tfo5w8y6oajsjq@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index f0a1036b191198cbffdc07d66fc05e74a05c5af2..893a0d07986f526b1402ef19238f6e2dccd70973 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ struct pmu {
  * enum perf_event_active_state - the states of a event
  */
 enum perf_event_active_state {
+       PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT           = -3,
        PERF_EVENT_STATE_ERROR          = -2,
        PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF            = -1,
        PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE       =  0,

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 4575dd6e59ea2c6ae77ed55d891b878d6303fb23..d8cb4d21a346d8c4c6fc55c0f10dfb3a52c144c6 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -3600,7 +3600,8 @@ perf_read_hw(struct perf_event *event, char __user *buf, size_t count)
         * error state (i.e. because it was pinned but it couldn't be
         * scheduled on to the CPU at some point).
         */
-       if (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_ERROR)
+       if ((event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_ERROR) ||
+           (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT))
                return 0;
 
        if (count < event->read_size)
@@ -3630,6 +3631,10 @@ static unsigned int perf_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
        unsigned int events = POLLHUP;
 
        poll_wait(file, &event->waitq, wait);
+
+       if (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT)
+               return events;
+
        /*
         * Pin the event->rb by taking event->mmap_mutex; otherwise
         * perf_event_set_output() can swizzle our rb and make us miss wakeups.
@@ -7588,6 +7593,9 @@ __perf_event_exit_task(struct perf_event *child_event,
        if (child_event->parent) {
                sync_child_event(child_event, child);
                free_event(child_event);
+       } else {
+               child_event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT;
+               perf_event_wakeup(child_event);
        }
 }