Re: [PATCH] rtla/timerlat_top: Fix on-threshold actions firing on signal
From: Wander Lairson Costa <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-15 14:37:55
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 04:10:47PM +0200, Tomas Glozar wrote:
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A bug was reported when rtla-timerlat-top tool performs on-threshold actions, even though no threshold was hit. This is reproduced even if no threshold is set at all: $ rtla timerlat top -q -c 0 --on-threshold shell,command='echo BAD' BAD Timer Latency ... The bug is due to incorrect logic in timerlat_top_bpf_main_loop(). The loop uses timerlat_bpf_wait(), the return values of which are: - > 0 (number of ringbuffer entries): at least 1 CPU hit threshold - = 0: time out - < 0: wait was interrupted by a signal Commit 3138df6f0cd0 ("rtla/timerlat: Exit top main loop on any non-zero wait_retval") changed the condition for "threshold hit" from "wait_reval == 1" (exactly 1 CPU hit threshold) to "wait_retval != 0", to fix a race where multiple CPUs hit the threshold at the same time. That also made it incorrectly include a signal (< 0), coming from either duration expired (SIGALRM) or user interrupt (SIGINT). Check for wait_retval greater than zero in the if condition to cover all return values correctly. Fixes: 3138df6f0cd0 ("rtla/timerlat: Exit top main loop on any non-zero wait_retval") Reported-by: Attila Fazekas <redacted> Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com> --- tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c index 18e1071a2e242..6206a0a565ad3 100644 --- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c +++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ timerlat_top_bpf_main_loop(struct osnoise_tool *tool) if (!params->quiet) timerlat_print_stats(tool); - if (wait_retval != 0) { + if (wait_retval > 0) { /* Stopping requested by tracer */ retval = common_threshold_handler(tool); if (retval)-- 2.55.0
Reviewed-by: Wander Lairson Costa <redacted>