From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Avoiding a loop, so now its quite convenient to ssh to a machine and
then simply do:
# perf trace
To trace all syscalls without causing a loop.
This was possible using --filter-pids, i.e. once you noticed the loop,
get the sshd pid and add it to --filter-pids, restarting the 'perf
trace'.
Now to figure out how to do that in a X terminal, the other common
scenario, which is way more involved, as there are multiple processes
communicating to process terminal activity...
Using --filter-pids + '-e \!syscall,names,you,dont,need' may be a good
approximation when having to do syswide tracing on your workstation.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
---
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 0ba36f08efd8..05d24b6570ee 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -2241,10 +2241,24 @@ static int trace__set_ev_qualifier_filter(struct trace
*trace)
static int trace__set_filter_loop_pids(struct trace *trace)
{
- int nr = 1;
+ unsigned int nr = 1;
pid_t pids[32] = {
getpid(),
};
+ struct thread *thread = machine__find_thread(trace->host, pids[0],
pids[0]);
+
+ while (thread && nr < ARRAY_SIZE(pids)) {
+ struct thread *parent = machine__find_thread(trace->host,
thread->ppid, thread->ppid);
+
+ if (parent == NULL)
+ break;
+
+ if (!strcmp(thread__comm_str(parent), "sshd")) {
+ pids[nr++] = parent->tid;
+ break;
+ }
+ thread = parent;
+ }
return perf_evlist__set_filter_pids(trace->evlist, nr, pids);
}
--
2.9.4
