From: Joel Fernandes Currently we stop recording comm for non-idle tasks when switching from/to idle task since we treat that as a record failure. Fix that by treat recording of comm for idle task as a success. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170706230023.17942-1-joelaf@google.com Cc: kernel-team@android.com Cc: Ingo Molnar Reported-by: Michael Sartain Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index f079a8ca1117..6722d86f2af5 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -1916,7 +1916,11 @@ static int trace_save_cmdline(struct task_struct *tsk) { unsigned pid, idx; - if (!tsk->pid || unlikely(tsk->pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT)) + /* treat recording of idle task as a success */ + if (!tsk->pid) + return 1; + + if (unlikely(tsk->pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT)) return 0; /* -- 2.10.2