[tip: perf/urgent] perf top: Fix stdio interface input handling with glibc 2.28+

From: tip-bot2 for Tommi Rantala
Date: Sat Mar 07 2020 - 02:37:14 EST


The following commit has been merged into the perf/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 29b4f5f188571c112713c35cc87eefb46efee612
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/29b4f5f188571c112713c35cc87eefb46efee612
Author: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:37:12 +02:00
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 08:30:47 -03:00

perf top: Fix stdio interface input handling with glibc 2.28+

Since glibc 2.28 when running 'perf top --stdio', input handling no
longer works, but hitting any key always just prints the "Mapped keys"
help text.

To fix it, call clearerr() in the display_thread() loop to clear any EOF
sticky errors, as instructed in the glibc NEWS file
(https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=NEWS):

* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
(e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
(Bug #1190.)

Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200305083714.9381-2-tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index f6dd1a6..d2539b7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -684,7 +684,9 @@ repeat:
delay_msecs = top->delay_secs * MSEC_PER_SEC;
set_term_quiet_input(&save);
/* trash return*/
- getc(stdin);
+ clearerr(stdin);
+ if (poll(&stdin_poll, 1, 0) > 0)
+ getc(stdin);

while (!done) {
perf_top__print_sym_table(top);