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    • Adrian Hunter's avatar
      perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events · 82b89778
      Adrian Hunter authored
      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: default avatarAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/537D9EBE.7030806@intel.com
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
      Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      82b89778