Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757341Ab3EGG3y (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 May 2013 02:29:54 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f45.google.com ([74.125.83.45]:47078 "EHLO mail-ee0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756170Ab3EGG3x (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 May 2013 02:29:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 08:29:47 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Stephane Eranian Cc: David Ahern , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , LKML , Mike Galbraith , Frederic Weisbecker , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf record: handle death by SIGTERM Message-ID: <20130507062947.GB17705@gmail.com> References: <1367864663-1309-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 633 Lines: 20 * Stephane Eranian wrote: > This is a good fix. I have run into this infinite loop in perf report > many times. Hm, perf record should really not assume much about the perf.data and should avoid infinite loops ... So while making perf.data more consistent on SIGTERM is a nice fix, perf report should be fixed as well to detect loops and such. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/