perf evlist: Enhance perf_evlist__start_workload()

When perf tries to start a workload, it relies on a pipe which the
workload was blocked for reading.  After closing the pipe on the parent,
the workload (child) can start the actual work via exec().

However, if another process was forked after creating a workload, this
mechanism cannot work since the other process (child) also inherits the
pipe, so that closing the pipe in parent cannot unblock the workload.
Fix it by using explicit write call can then closing it.

For similar reason, the pipe fd on parent should be marked as CLOEXEC so
that it can be closed after another child exec'ed.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372230862-15861-13-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 99b43dd18c5..8065ce8fa9a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -821,6 +821,7 @@ int perf_evlist__prepare_workload(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
 		goto out_close_pipes;
 	}
 
+	fcntl(go_pipe[1], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
 	evlist->workload.cork_fd = go_pipe[1];
 	close(child_ready_pipe[0]);
 	return 0;
@@ -837,10 +838,17 @@ out_close_ready_pipe:
 int perf_evlist__start_workload(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
 {
 	if (evlist->workload.cork_fd > 0) {
+		char bf;
+		int ret;
 		/*
 		 * Remove the cork, let it rip!
 		 */
-		return close(evlist->workload.cork_fd);
+		ret = write(evlist->workload.cork_fd, &bf, 1);
+		if (ret < 0)
+			perror("enable to write to pipe");
+
+		close(evlist->workload.cork_fd);
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	return 0;