perf top: Set display thread COMM to help with debugging
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 6 Aug 2019 14:20:42 +0000 (11:20 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:26:02 +0000 (16:26 -0300)
When we want to attach just to the thread that updates the display it
helps having its COMM stand out, so change it from the default "perf" to
"perf-top-UI".

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5w0hmlk3zfvysxvpsh763k9w@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-top.c

index 1a4615a5f6c9d088d26383e10e7983dfdebc24f2..94e34853a2380a61590b37482a6754ab2be43cf0 100644 (file)
@@ -601,6 +601,8 @@ static void *display_thread_tui(void *arg)
         */
        unshare(CLONE_FS);
 
+       prctl(PR_SET_NAME, "perf-top-UI", 0, 0, 0);
+
        perf_top__sort_new_samples(top);
 
        /*
@@ -651,6 +653,8 @@ static void *display_thread(void *arg)
         */
        unshare(CLONE_FS);
 
+       prctl(PR_SET_NAME, "perf-top-UI", 0, 0, 0);
+
        display_setup_sig();
        pthread__unblock_sigwinch();
 repeat: