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authorOtavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>2019-12-19 00:14:33 -0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-12-19 00:14:33 -0300
commitfa8a03bec68d9ef89da72277bd3501ed3daa6217 (patch)
tree3d3218332bcb34cb0afa01d6ad996058a3dbcb77 /tools/perf/util/thread.c
parent6b774eec1f9d3064e9b33634dfa99d5666d0a73a (diff)
parent1ddf624b0b268fdc0b80b1de618b98f8d117afea (diff)
Merge pull request #55 from toradex/4.14-2.0.x-imx
4.14 2.0.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 1dbcd3c8dee0..177436c8e026 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/thread.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/thread.c
@@ -160,14 +160,24 @@ 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;
}