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SubjectRe: Tracing thread name
Hi,

Mathieu Desnoyers a écrit :
> * Matthieu CASTET (matthieu.castet@parrot.com) wrote:
>> Hi Mathieu,
>>
>> Mathieu Desnoyers a écrit :
>> Do you know if it is possible to patch my version to add such feature ?
>>
>> I saw that the name already change in the trace before/after an exec.
>> How lltv get the new name ?
>> With "fs.exec" tracepoint ?
>> In that case I could fake a "fs.exec" tracepoint in set_task_comm.
>
> A better solution : you add a new event in both lttng and lttv, and
> modify state.c to support your new event. The current event to brand
> thread is named "userspace.thread_brand". Look for this in LTTV to see
> all the sites that need to support the new event (there are very few).
>
Thanks, but I want to avoid to modify too much ltt (I use an old version
for 2.6.27 and my modifications may be useless for upstream).

I added "trace_fs_exec(tsk->comm);" at the end of set_task_comm and now
the thread got the correct name :)


Matthieu
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