From 82b897782d10fcc4930c9d4a15b175348fdd2871 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Hunter Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 11:45:04 +0300 Subject: perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/537D9EBE.7030806@intel.com Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- fs/exec.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/exec.c') diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index a038a41a3677..a3d33fe592d6 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1046,13 +1046,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_task_comm); * so that a new one can be started */ -void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *buf) +void __set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *buf, bool exec) { task_lock(tsk); trace_task_rename(tsk, buf); strlcpy(tsk->comm, buf, sizeof(tsk->comm)); task_unlock(tsk); - perf_event_comm(tsk); + perf_event_comm(tsk, exec); } int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm) @@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm) set_dumpable(current->mm, suid_dumpable); perf_event_exec(); - set_task_comm(current, kbasename(bprm->filename)); + __set_task_comm(current, kbasename(bprm->filename), true); /* Set the new mm task size. We have to do that late because it may * depend on TIF_32BIT which is only updated in flush_thread() on -- cgit