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| author | Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> | 2014-05-28 11:45:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2014-06-06 07:56:22 +0200 |
| commit | 82b897782d10fcc4930c9d4a15b175348fdd2871 (patch) | |
| tree | 82bc0bb22ef1379b901d4fce582584b6776a91ea /include/linux | |
| parent | ec00010972a0971b2c1da4fbe4e5c7d8ed1ecb05 (diff) | |
perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events
perf tools like 'perf report' can aggregate samples by comm strings,
which generally works. However, there are other potential use-cases.
For example, to pair up 'calls' with 'returns' accurately (from branch
events like Intel BTS) it is necessary to identify whether the process
has exec'd. Although a comm event is generated when an 'exec' happens
it is also generated whenever the comm string is changed on a whim
(e.g. by prctl PR_SET_NAME). This patch adds a flag to the comm event
to differentiate one case from the other.
In order to determine whether the kernel supports the new flag, a
selection bit named 'exec' is added to struct perf_event_attr. The
bit does nothing but will cause perf_event_open() to fail if the bit
is set on kernels that do not have it defined.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_event.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 6 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index b4c1d4685bf0..707617a8c0f6 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ extern int perf_register_guest_info_callbacks(struct perf_guest_info_callbacks * extern int perf_unregister_guest_info_callbacks(struct perf_guest_info_callbacks *callbacks); extern void perf_event_exec(void); -extern void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk); +extern void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, bool exec); extern void perf_event_fork(struct task_struct *tsk); /* Callchains */ @@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ static inline int perf_unregister_guest_info_callbacks static inline void perf_event_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { } static inline void perf_event_exec(void) { } -static inline void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk) { } +static inline void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, bool exec) { } static inline void perf_event_fork(struct task_struct *tsk) { } static inline void perf_event_init(void) { } static inline int perf_swevent_get_recursion_context(void) { return -1; } diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 221b2bde3723..ad86e1d7dbc2 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -2379,7 +2379,11 @@ extern long do_fork(unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, int __user *, i struct task_struct *fork_idle(int); extern pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags); -extern void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *from); +extern void __set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *from, bool exec); +static inline void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *from) +{ + __set_task_comm(tsk, from, false); +} extern char *get_task_comm(char *to, struct task_struct *tsk); #ifdef CONFIG_SMP |