diff --git a/clients/drcachesim/tracer/syscall_pt_trace.cpp b/clients/drcachesim/tracer/syscall_pt_trace.cpp
index 24ebceb1f6a..5700e4abd91 100644
--- a/clients/drcachesim/tracer/syscall_pt_trace.cpp
+++ b/clients/drcachesim/tracer/syscall_pt_trace.cpp
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ syscall_pt_trace_t::start_syscall_pt_trace(DR_PARAM_IN int sysnum)
 }
 
 bool
-syscall_pt_trace_t::stop_syscall_pt_trace()
+syscall_pt_trace_t::stop_syscall_pt_trace(bool dump_to_trace)
 {
     ASSERT(is_initialized_, "syscall_pt_trace_t is not initialized");
     ASSERT(drcontext_ != nullptr, "drcontext_ is nullptr");
@@ -171,11 +171,13 @@ syscall_pt_trace_t::stop_syscall_pt_trace()
         return false;
     }
 
-    if (!trace_data_dump(pttracer_output_buffer_)) {
-        return false;
-    }
+    if (dump_to_trace) {
+        if (!trace_data_dump(pttracer_output_buffer_)) {
+            return false;
+        }
 
-    traced_syscall_idx_++;
+        ++traced_syscall_idx_;
+    }
     cur_recording_sysnum_ = -1;
 
     /* Reset the pttracer handle for next syscall.
diff --git a/clients/drcachesim/tracer/syscall_pt_trace.h b/clients/drcachesim/tracer/syscall_pt_trace.h
index d9af890d227..108474b8864 100644
--- a/clients/drcachesim/tracer/syscall_pt_trace.h
+++ b/clients/drcachesim/tracer/syscall_pt_trace.h
@@ -122,9 +122,11 @@ class syscall_pt_trace_t {
     bool
     start_syscall_pt_trace(DR_PARAM_IN int sysnum);
 
-    /* Stop the PT tracing for current syscall and dump the output data to one file. */
+    /* Stop the PT tracing for current syscall and dump the output data to the trace
+     * if dump_to_trace is set.
+     */
     bool
-    stop_syscall_pt_trace();
+    stop_syscall_pt_trace(bool dump_to_trace);
 
     /* Get the sysnum of current recording syscall. */
     int
diff --git a/clients/drcachesim/tracer/tracer.cpp b/clients/drcachesim/tracer/tracer.cpp
index 6d8f6cab7d1..033965b9c8a 100644
--- a/clients/drcachesim/tracer/tracer.cpp
+++ b/clients/drcachesim/tracer/tracer.cpp
@@ -1499,27 +1499,28 @@ exit_record_syscall()
 
 #ifdef BUILD_PT_TRACER
 static bool
-stop_cur_syscall_pt_trace(void *drcontext, per_thread_t *data)
+stop_cur_syscall_pt_trace(void *drcontext, per_thread_t *data, bool dump_to_trace)
 {
     int cur_recording_sysnum = data->syscall_pt_trace.get_cur_recording_sysnum();
     ASSERT(cur_recording_sysnum != INVALID_SYSNUM,
            "Routine expected to be called only when PT tracing is active.");
-    /* Write a marker to the userspace raw trace that denotes where raw2trace
-     * should decode and insert the PT trace for the system call being
-     * recorded currently. Some drmemtrace derivations may interleave the PT
-     * trace raw data with the drmemtrace user-space raw trace data (instead of
-     * outputting the PT trace data to separate files like we do here). In such
-     * cases, we want to ensure that the TRACE_MARKER_TYPE_SYSCALL_IDX does not
-     * get output before the actual PT trace data, so we output the marker when
-     * we stop and write the PT trace (instead of when we start the PT trace).
-     * Note that the order below does not matter because the actual buffer
-     * flush happens later.
-     */
-    trace_marker_type_t marker_type = TRACE_MARKER_TYPE_SYSCALL_IDX;
-    uintptr_t marker_val = data->syscall_pt_trace.get_traced_syscall_idx();
-    BUF_PTR(data->seg_base) +=
-        instru->append_marker(BUF_PTR(data->seg_base), marker_type, marker_val);
-    if (!data->syscall_pt_trace.stop_syscall_pt_trace()) {
+    if (dump_to_trace) {
+        // Write a marker to the userspace raw trace that denotes where raw2trace
+        // should decode and insert the PT trace for the system call being
+        // recorded currently. Some drmemtrace derivations may interleave the PT
+        // trace raw data with the drmemtrace user-space raw trace data (instead of
+        // outputting the PT trace data to separate files like we do here). In such
+        // cases, we want to ensure that the TRACE_MARKER_TYPE_SYSCALL_IDX does not
+        // get output before the actual PT trace data, so we output the marker when
+        // we stop and write the PT trace (instead of when we start the PT trace).
+        // Note that the order below does not matter because the actual buffer
+        // flush happens later.
+        trace_marker_type_t marker_type = TRACE_MARKER_TYPE_SYSCALL_IDX;
+        uintptr_t marker_val = data->syscall_pt_trace.get_traced_syscall_idx();
+        BUF_PTR(data->seg_base) +=
+            instru->append_marker(BUF_PTR(data->seg_base), marker_type, marker_val);
+    }
+    if (!data->syscall_pt_trace.stop_syscall_pt_trace(dump_to_trace)) {
         NOTIFY(0,
                "ERROR: Failed to stop PT tracing for syscall %d of thread "
                "T%d.\n",
@@ -1611,7 +1612,13 @@ event_pre_syscall(void *drcontext, int sysnum)
                    "Last syscall tracing wasn't stopped when we reached the next one");
             // In the release build, in case we somehow did not stop the PT tracing, we
             // try to stop it and continue.
-            if (!stop_cur_syscall_pt_trace(drcontext, data))
+            // XXX: Something didn't go as expected as the last syscall PT trace was
+            // not stopped yet. We may need to find other control points where PT
+            // tracing needs to be stopped. E.g., PT tracing for syscalls interrupted by
+            // signals may need to be stopped in main_signal_handler. Though it has
+            // not been observed yet, the traces dumped below may have issues during
+            // decoding.
+            if (!stop_cur_syscall_pt_trace(drcontext, data, /*dump_to_trace=*/true))
                 return false;
         }
 
@@ -1688,7 +1695,7 @@ event_post_syscall(void *drcontext, int sysnum)
             ASSERT(syscall_pt_trace_t::is_syscall_pt_trace_enabled(cur_recording_sysnum),
                    "Did not expect syscall tracing to be enabled for this syscall");
             // Ignore return value and try to continue in release build.
-            stop_cur_syscall_pt_trace(drcontext, data);
+            stop_cur_syscall_pt_trace(drcontext, data, /*dump_to_trace=*/true);
         } else {
             // No syscall trace is being recorded. This may be because syscall tracing
             // is not enabled for sysnum, or that we were not in tracing mode at the
@@ -1865,7 +1872,13 @@ event_thread_exit(void *drcontext)
                        "found active at detach.\n",
                        cur_recording_sysnum, dr_get_thread_id(drcontext));
                 // Ignore return value and try to continue in release build.
-                stop_cur_syscall_pt_trace(drcontext, data);
+                // We skip dumping the trace because the syscall was likely interrupted
+                // by the detach signal and does not represent the real app behavior.
+                // XXX: Can we somehow figure out how much of the PT trace we can keep?
+                // Such PT syscall traces at the thread's end have been seen to not
+                // decode successfully in libipt, particularly for syscalls like futex,
+                // and epoll_wait.
+                stop_cur_syscall_pt_trace(drcontext, data, /*dump_to_trace=*/false);
             }
         }
 #endif