linux-kernel - [tip:perf/core] perf trace: Read thread's COMM from /proc when not set

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:37:54 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	adrian.hunter@...el.com, tglx@...utronix.de, bp@...e.de,
	namhyung@...nel.org, acme@...hat.com, wangnan0@...wei.com,
	dsahern@...il.com, milian.wolff@...b.com, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org
Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf trace: Read thread's COMM from /proc when not
 set

Commit-ID:  073e5fca53d30ffe9e2fc637a001c78b2cdca7dd
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/073e5fca53d30ffe9e2fc637a001c78b2cdca7dd
Author:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:33:46 -0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:00 -0300

perf trace: Read thread's COMM from /proc when not set

We get notifications for threads that gets created while we're tracing,
but for preexisting threads we may end not having synthesized them, like
when tracing a 'perf trace' session that will use '--pid' to trace some
other thread.

And besides we should probably stop synthesizing those records and
instead read thread information in a lazy way, i.e. just when we need,
like done in this patch:

Now the 'pid_t' argument in 'perf_event_open' gets translated to a COMM:

  # perf trace -e perf_event_open perf stat -e cycles -p 31601
     0.027 ( 0.027 ms): perf/23393 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x2fdd0d8, pid: 31601 (abrt-dump-journ), cpu: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC)
                                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
= 3
^C

And in other syscalls containing pid_t without thread->comm_set at the
time of the formatting.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@...b.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ioeps6dlwst17d6oozc9shtk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/trace/beauty/pid.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/pid.c b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/pid.c
index 111ae08..07486ea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/pid.c
+++ b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/pid.c
@@ -3,9 +3,12 @@ static size_t syscall_arg__scnprintf_pid(char *bf, size_t size, struct syscall_a
 	int pid = arg->val;
 	struct trace *trace = arg->trace;
 	size_t printed = scnprintf(bf, size, "%d", pid);
-	struct thread *thread = machine__find_thread(trace->host, pid, pid);
+	struct thread *thread = machine__findnew_thread(trace->host, pid, pid);
 
 	if (thread != NULL) {
+		if (!thread->comm_set)
+			thread__set_comm_from_proc(thread);
+
 		if (thread->comm_set)
 			printed += scnprintf(bf + printed, size - printed,
 					     " (%s)", thread__comm_str(thread));