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perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events

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perf tools like 'perf report' can aggregate samples by comm strings,
which generally works.  However, there are other potential use-cases.
For example, to pair up 'calls' with 'returns' accurately (from branch
events like Intel BTS) it is necessary to identify whether the process
has exec'd.  Although a comm event is generated when an 'exec' happens
it is also generated whenever the comm string is changed on a whim
(e.g. by prctl PR_SET_NAME).  This patch adds a flag to the comm event
to differentiate one case from the other.

In order to determine whether the kernel supports the new flag, a
selection bit named 'exec' is added to struct perf_event_attr.  The
bit does nothing but will cause perf_event_open() to fail if the bit
is set on kernels that do not have it defined.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/537D9EBE.7030806@intel.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Adrian Hunter
2014-05-28 11:45:04 +03:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent ec00010972
commit 82b897782d
5 changed files with 19 additions and 10 deletions
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@@ -2379,7 +2379,11 @@ extern long do_fork(unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, int __user *, i
struct task_struct *fork_idle(int);
extern pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags);
extern void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *from);
extern void __set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *from, bool exec);
static inline void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *from)
{
__set_task_comm(tsk, from, false);
}
extern char *get_task_comm(char *to, struct task_struct *tsk);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP