perf record: Fix fast task-exit race

Recording with -a (or with -p) can race with tasks going away:

   couldn't open /proc/8440/maps

Causing an early exit() and no recording done.

Do not abort the recording session - instead just skip that task.

Also, only print the warnings under -v.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index a177a59..e1dfef2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -202,8 +202,12 @@ static void pid_synthesize_comm_event(pid_t pid, int full)
 
 	fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
 	if (fd < 0) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "couldn't open %s\n", filename);
-		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+		/*
+		 * We raced with a task exiting - just return:
+		 */
+		if (verbose)
+			fprintf(stderr, "couldn't open %s\n", filename);
+		return;
 	}
 	if (read(fd, bf, sizeof(bf)) < 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "couldn't read %s\n", filename);
@@ -273,8 +277,12 @@ static void pid_synthesize_mmap_samples(pid_t pid)
 
 	fp = fopen(filename, "r");
 	if (fp == NULL) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "couldn't open %s\n", filename);
-		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+		/*
+		 * We raced with a task exiting - just return:
+		 */
+		if (verbose)
+			fprintf(stderr, "couldn't open %s\n", filename);
+		return;
 	}
 	while (1) {
 		char bf[BUFSIZ], *pbf = bf;