linux/tools/perf
David Ahern defd8d3877 perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads
perf does not properly handle monitoring of processes with named threads.
For example:

$ ps -C myapp -L
  PID   LWP TTY          TIME CMD
25118 25118 ?        00:00:00 myapp
25118 25119 ?        00:00:00 myapp:worker

perf record -e cs -c 1 -fo /tmp/perf.data -p 25118 -- sleep 10
perf report --stdio -i /tmp/perf.data
   100.00%  myapp:worker  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] perf_event_task_sched_out

The process name is set to the name of the last thread it finds for the
process.

The Problem:
perf-top and perf-record both create a thread_map of threads to be
monitored. That map is used in perf_event__synthesize_thread_map which
loops over the entries in thread_map and calls __event__synthesize_thread
to generate COMM and MMAP events.

__event__synthesize_thread calls perf_event__synthesize_comm which opens
/proc/pid/status, reads the name of the task and its thread group id.
That's all fine. The problem is that it then reads /proc/pid/task and
generates COMM events for each task it finds - but using the name found
in /proc/pid/status where pid is the thread of interest.

The end result (looping over thread_map + synthesizing comm events for
each thread each time) means the name of the last thread processed sets
the name for all threads in the process - which is not good for
multithreaded processes with named threads.

The Fix:
perf_event__synthesize_comm has an input argument (full) that decides
whether to process task entries for each pid it is passed. It currently
never set to 0 (perf_event__synthesize_comm has a single caller and it
always passes the value 1). Let's fix that.

Add the full input argument to __event__synthesize_thread which passes
it to perf_event__synthesize_comm. For thread/process monitoring set full
to 0 which means COMM and MMAP events are only generated for the pid
passed to it. For system wide monitoring set full to 1 so that COMM events
are generated for all threads in a process.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324578603-12762-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23 16:10:40 -02:00
..
arch perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8) 2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
bench perf tool: Fix gcc 4.6.0 issues 2011-02-07 12:41:41 -02:00
config perf tools: git mv tools/perf/{features-tests.mak,config/} 2011-04-19 08:18:36 -03:00
Documentation perf report: Document '--call-graph' for optional print_limit argument 2011-12-20 13:28:13 -02:00
python perf evlist: Store pointer to the cpu and thread maps 2011-01-31 12:40:52 -02:00
scripts perf script: Add drop monitor script 2011-09-29 16:41:37 -03:00
util perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads 2011-12-23 16:10:40 -02:00
.gitignore perf tools: Makefile: Remove various and sundry cruft 2011-02-18 07:43:06 -02:00
builtin-annotate.c perf tools: make -C consistent across commands (for cpu list arg) 2011-11-28 11:45:53 -02:00
builtin-bench.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf buildid-list: Support showing the build id in an ELF file 2011-09-29 16:41:37 -03:00
builtin-diff.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
builtin-evlist.c perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
builtin-help.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
builtin-kmem.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
builtin-kvm.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-list.c perf list: Allow filtering list of events 2011-02-17 15:38:58 -02:00
builtin-lock.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
builtin-probe.c perf tools: Eliminate duplicate code and use PATH_MAX consistently 2011-11-28 10:11:04 -02:00
builtin-record.c perf record: Add ability to record event period 2011-12-20 12:50:09 -02:00
builtin-report.c perf report: Fix usage string 2011-12-22 10:23:55 -02:00
builtin-sched.c perf tools: Save some loops using perf_evlist__id2evsel 2011-11-28 17:57:40 -02:00
builtin-script.c perf script: Implement option for system-wide profiling 2011-12-12 08:44:00 -02:00
builtin-stat.c Merge commit 'v3.2-rc6' into perf/core 2011-12-20 20:32:11 +01:00
builtin-test.c perf test: Add more automated tests for event parsing 2011-12-20 14:46:14 -02:00
builtin-timechart.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
builtin-top.c perf evlist: Always do automatic allocation of pollfd and mmap structures 2011-11-29 08:05:52 -02:00
builtin.h perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8) 2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
command-list.txt perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
CREDITS
design.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00
Makefile perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
MANIFEST perf packaging: add memcpy to perf MANIFEST 2010-11-30 23:00:10 -02:00
perf-archive.sh perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
perf.c perf tools: Simplify debugfs mountpoint handling code 2011-11-28 10:11:28 -02:00
perf.h perf record: Add ability to record event period 2011-12-20 12:50:09 -02:00