Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Import trace saved cmdlines to threadsbase

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Aug 28 2009 - 01:51:55 EST



* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Currently, perf has its own base of threads objects that resolve a
> pid to a thread.
>
> This tables is built by the PERF_EVENT_COMM events.
>
> But ftrace events may need more than this table: they sometimes
> require to store task comms that are not profiled by perf.

What would be examples of such? Shouldnt we extend their tracing
accordingly, so that we have all the comms we are interested in?

Ingo
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