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Subject[PATCH] perf_counter: Report the cloning task as parent on perf_counter_fork()
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A bug in (9f498cc: perf_counter: Full task tracing) makes profiling
multi-threaded apps it go belly up.

[ output as: (PID:TID):(PPID:PTID) ]

# ./perf report -D | grep FORK
0x4b0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3237):(3236:3236)
0xa10 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3238):(3236:3236)
0xa70 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3239):(3236:3236)
0xad0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3240):(3236:3236)
0xb18 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3241):(3236:3236)

Shows us that the test (27d028d perf report: Update for the new
FORK/EXIT events) in builtin-report.c:

/*
* A thread clone will have the same PID for both
* parent and child.
*/
if (thread == parent)
return 0;

Will clearly fail.

The problem is that perf_counter_fork() reports the actual parent,
instead of the cloning thread.

Fixing that (with the below patch), yields:

# ./perf report -D | grep FORK
0x4c8 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1590):(1589:1589)
0xbd8 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1591):(1590:1590)
0xc80 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1592):(1590:1590)
0x3338 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1593):(1590:1590)
0x66b0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1594):(1590:1590)

Which both makes more sense and doesn't confuse perf report anymore.

Reported-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
perf_counter.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/perf_counter.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -3024,10 +3024,10 @@ static void perf_counter_task_output(str
return;

task_event->event.pid = perf_counter_pid(counter, task);
- task_event->event.ppid = perf_counter_pid(counter, task->real_parent);
+ task_event->event.ppid = perf_counter_pid(counter, current);

task_event->event.tid = perf_counter_tid(counter, task);
- task_event->event.ptid = perf_counter_tid(counter, task->real_parent);
+ task_event->event.ptid = perf_counter_tid(counter, current);

perf_output_put(&handle, task_event->event);
perf_output_end(&handle);


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