Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | [PATCH 29/29] perf session: Add comment for perf_session__register_idle_thread() | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2019 09:46:09 -0300 |
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From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Add a comment to perf_session__register_idle_thread() to bring attention to a pitfall with the idle task thread structure. The pitfall is that there should really be a 'struct thread' for the idle task of each cpu, but there is only one that can have pid == tid == 0.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181221120620.9659-9-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/util/session.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c index 78a067777144..5456c84c7dd1 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/session.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c @@ -1527,6 +1527,13 @@ struct thread *perf_session__findnew(struct perf_session *session, pid_t pid) return machine__findnew_thread(&session->machines.host, -1, pid); } +/* + * Threads are identified by pid and tid, and the idle task has pid == tid == 0. + * So here a single thread is created for that, but actually there is a separate + * idle task per cpu, so there should be one 'struct thread' per cpu, but there + * is only 1. That causes problems for some tools, requiring workarounds. For + * example get_idle_thread() in builtin-sched.c, or thread_stack__per_cpu(). + */ int perf_session__register_idle_thread(struct perf_session *session) { struct thread *thread; -- 2.19.2
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