From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> So that we don't continue polling on vanished file descriptors, i.e. file descriptors for events monitoring threads that exited.
I.e. the following 'trace' command now exits as expected, instead of staying in an eternal loop: $ sleep 5s & $ trace -p `pidof sleep` Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzic...@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fhn2pyf8sqhoiwu42hxq9...@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c index a9e96ff49c7f..09d4bc44215e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c @@ -2171,7 +2171,8 @@ next_event: if (trace->nr_events == before) { int timeout = done ? 100 : -1; - if (poll(evlist->pollfd, evlist->nr_fds, timeout) > 0) + if (poll(evlist->pollfd, evlist->nr_fds, timeout) > 0 && + perf_evlist__filter_pollfd(evlist, POLLERR | POLLHUP) > 0) goto again; } else { goto again; -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/