perf daemon: Add background support

Add support to put the daemon process in the background.

It's now enabled by default and -f option is added to keep the daemon
process on the console for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Budankov <abudankov@huawei.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210208200908.1019149-9-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 66 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-daemon.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-daemon.txt
index 173b3f9f3a41..af5916d1c3e0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-daemon.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-daemon.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ START COMMAND
 -------------
 The start command creates the daemon process.
 
+-f::
+--foreground::
+	Do not put the process in background.
+
 
 CONFIG FILE
 -----------
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-daemon.c b/tools/perf/builtin-daemon.c
index f33fc5c3249e..2241d0e36d92 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-daemon.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-daemon.c
@@ -675,10 +675,61 @@ static int setup_config(struct daemon *daemon)
 	return daemon->config_real ? 0 : -1;
 }
 
+static int go_background(struct daemon *daemon)
+{
+	int pid, fd;
+
+	pid = fork();
+	if (pid < 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	if (pid > 0)
+		return 1;
+
+	if (setsid() < 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	umask(0);
+
+	if (chdir(daemon->base)) {
+		perror("failed: chdir");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	fd = open("output", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0644);
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		perror("failed: open");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	if (fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)) {
+		perror("failed: fcntl FD_CLOEXEC");
+		close(fd);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	close(0);
+	dup2(fd, 1);
+	dup2(fd, 2);
+	close(fd);
+
+	daemon->out = fdopen(1, "w");
+	if (!daemon->out) {
+		close(1);
+		close(2);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	setbuf(daemon->out, NULL);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int __cmd_start(struct daemon *daemon, struct option parent_options[],
 		       int argc, const char **argv)
 {
+	bool foreground = false;
 	struct option start_options[] = {
+		OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "foreground", &foreground, "stay on console"),
 		OPT_PARENT(parent_options),
 		OPT_END()
 	};
@@ -699,6 +750,17 @@ static int __cmd_start(struct daemon *daemon, struct option parent_options[],
 	if (setup_server_config(daemon))
 		return -1;
 
+	if (!foreground) {
+		err = go_background(daemon);
+		if (err) {
+			/* original process, exit normally */
+			if (err == 1)
+				err = 0;
+			daemon__exit(daemon);
+			return err;
+		}
+	}
+
 	debug_set_file(daemon->out);
 	debug_set_display_time(true);