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 --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/events') diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 8fac2056d51e..7da5e561e89a 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -5090,7 +5090,7 @@ static void perf_event_comm_event(struct perf_comm_event *comm_event) NULL); } -void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *task) +void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *task, bool exec) { struct perf_comm_event comm_event; @@ -5104,7 +5104,7 @@ void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *task) .event_id = { .header = { .type = PERF_RECORD_COMM, - .misc = 0, + .misc = exec ? PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC : 0, /* .size */ }, /* .pid */ -- cgit