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authorOtavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>2020-05-20 08:43:03 -0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-05-20 08:43:03 -0300
commit1279cd128bba968ebe0a2df7f7ae38bae90250ef (patch)
treedf6b1a190760f51465122ca4c13492d5ac5984c6 /tools/perf/util/thread.c
parent0a8ab17689e628c84a666195bfc6ab85d11cf057 (diff)
parent2ae782ca839e0ee07de37122ddea362adff2e975 (diff)
Merge pull request #76 from toradex/4.9-2.3.x-imx
4.9 2.3.x imx
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/thread.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/thread.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/thread.c b/tools/perf/util/thread.c
index f5af87f66663..81aee5adc8a2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/thread.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/thread.c
@@ -114,14 +114,24 @@ struct comm *thread__comm(const struct thread *thread)
struct comm *thread__exec_comm(const struct thread *thread)
{
- struct comm *comm, *last = NULL;
+ struct comm *comm, *last = NULL, *second_last = NULL;
list_for_each_entry(comm, &thread->comm_list, list) {
if (comm->exec)
return comm;
+ second_last = last;
last = comm;
}
+ /*
+ * 'last' with no start time might be the parent's comm of a synthesized
+ * thread (created by processing a synthesized fork event). For a main
+ * thread, that is very probably wrong. Prefer a later comm to avoid
+ * that case.
+ */
+ if (second_last && !last->start && thread->pid_ == thread->tid)
+ return second_last;
+
return last;
}