| Date | Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:28:14 -0700 | From | David Ahern <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v0 13/71] perf tools: Add machine__get_thread_pid() |
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On 12/11/13, 5:36 AM, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> > > Add a function to get the pid from the tid. > > This is needed when using the sched_switch > tracepoint to follow object code execution. > sched_switch identifies the thread but, to > find the process mmaps, we need the process > pid.
Are you looking up the current or next task? If the former why not use sample->pid rather than parsing the sched_switch tracepoint?
David
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