From: David Ahern Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:49:27 +0000 (-0600) Subject: perf tools: Sample after exit loses thread correlation X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~168^3~7^2~14 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=236a3bbd5cb51edbf9550f5a7df885665d18a271;p=pandora-kernel.git perf tools: Sample after exit loses thread correlation Occassionally events (e.g., context-switch, sched tracepoints) are losing the conversion of sample data associated with a thread. For example: $ perf record -e sched:sched_switch -c 1 -a -- sleep 5 $ perf script ls 30482 [000] 1379727.583037: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=ls prev_pid=30482 ... ls 30482 [000] 1379727.586339: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=ls prev_pid=30482 ... :30482 30482 [000] 1379727.589462: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=ls prev_pid=30482 ... The last line lost the conversion from tid to comm. If you look at the events (perf script -D) you see why - a SAMPLE event is generated after the EXIT: 0 1379727589449774 0x1540b0 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(30482:30482):(30482:30482) 0 1379727589462497 0x1540e8 [0x80]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 30482/30482: 0xffffffff816416f1 period: 1 addr: 0 ... thread: :30482:30482 When perf processes the EXIT event the thread is moved to the dead_threads list. When the SAMPLE event is processed no thread exists for the pid so a new one is created by machine__findnew_thread. This patch address the problem by delaying the move to the dead_threads list until the tid is re-used (per Adrian's suggestion). With this patch we get the previous example shows: ls 30482 [000] 1379727.583037: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=ls prev_pid=30482 ... ls 30482 [000] 1379727.586339: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=ls prev_pid=30482 ... ls 30482 [000] 1379727.589462: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=ls prev_pid=30482 ... and 0 1379727589449774 0x1540b0 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(30482:30482):(30482:30482) 0 1379727589462497 0x1540e8 [0x80]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 30482/30482: 0xffffffff816416f1 period: 1 addr: 0 ... thread: ls:30482 v4: per Arnaldo's request add dead flag to thread struct and set when task exits v3: re-do from a time based check to a delayed move to dead_threads list v2: Rebased to latest perf/core branch. Changed time comparison to use a macro which explicitly shows the time basis Signed-off-by: David Ahern Acked-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376491767-84171-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- Reading git-diff-tree failed