Messages in this thread |  | | From | Vince Weaver <> | Date | Thu, 2 Jan 2020 13:55:47 -0500 (EST) | Subject | [perf] perf_event_open() sometimes returning 0 |
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Hello
so I was tracking down some odd behavior in the perf_fuzzer which turns out to be because perf_even_open() sometimes returns 0 (indicating a file descriptor of 0) even though as far as I can tell stdin is still open.
Before I waste too much time trying to track this down, is this a known issue?
Some sample strace output:
perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_RAW, size=0x78 /* PERF_ATTR_SIZE_??? */, config=0x1313, ...}, 0, 3, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP) = 0 perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, size=0x78 /* PERF_ATTR_SIZE_??? */, config=PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY, ...}, -1, 3, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP|PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT) = 0 perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, size=0x78 /* PERF_ATTR_SIZE_??? */, config=PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MIN, ...}, 158266, 2, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE, size=0x78 /* PERF_ATTR_SIZE_??? */, config=PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_DTLB|PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_OP_READ<<8|PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_RESULT_MISS<<16, ...}, 0, 4, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP|PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_RAW, size=0x78 /* PERF_ATTR_SIZE_??? */, config=0, ...}, -1, 0, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT|PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
On my Haswell system (running current git) I can reproduce things with a single call:
memset(&pe[0],0,sizeof(struct perf_event_attr)); pe[0].type=PERF_TYPE_RAW; pe[0].size=120; pe[0].config=0x0ULL; pe[0].sample_period=0x4777c3ULL; pe[0].sample_type=PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID; /* 200 */ pe[0].read_format=PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING|PERF_FORMAT_ID|PERF_FORMAT_GROUP; /* e */ pe[0].inherit=1; pe[0].exclude_hv=1; pe[0].exclude_idle=1; pe[0].enable_on_exec=1; pe[0].watermark=1; pe[0].precise_ip=0; /* arbitrary skid */ pe[0].mmap_data=1; pe[0].exclude_guest=1; pe[0].exclude_callchain_kernel=1; pe[0].mmap2=1; pe[0].comm_exec=1; pe[0].context_switch=1; pe[0].bpf_event=1; pe[0].wakeup_watermark=47545; pe[0].bp_type=HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY; pe[0].branch_sample_type=PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL|PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY_RETURN|PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND|0x800ULL; pe[0].sample_regs_user=42ULL; pe[0].sample_stack_user=0xfffffffd; pe[0].aux_watermark=25443; pe[0].aux_sample_size=8192;
fd[0]=perf_event_open(&pe[0], -1, /* current thread */ 0, /* Only cpu 0 */ -1, /* New Group Leader */ PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT|PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC /*a*/ );
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