Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:07:46 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/17] perf util: Save pid-cmdline mapping into tracing header |
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Em Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:51:54AM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu: > 2013-07-30 오후 10:28, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 쓴 글: > >Em Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 06:18:58PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu: > >>Current trace info data lacks the saved cmdline mapping which is > >>needed for pevent to find out the comm of a task. Add this and bump > >>up the version number so that perf can determine its presence when > >>reading.
> >Can't we get this from the PERF_RECORD_COMM synthesized at the beginning > >of the session + the kernel generated ones for new threads?
> >We would just call machine__find_thread() and use thread->comm, etc, no?
> Yes, I think it's doable. However it needs an additional perf event > only to generate the COMM events. So I decided not to do it and
I don't think this is a problem, its in line with Ingo's suggestion of a new perf ioctl to ask the kernel to generate PERF_RECORD_MMAP events for existing threads.
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