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* [PATCH] perf sched timehist: decode process names of processes in zombie state
@ 2025-07-09 14:31 Anubhav Shelat
  2025-07-11 20:02 ` Namhyung Kim
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Anubhav Shelat @ 2025-07-09 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mpetlan, acme, namhyung, irogers, linux-perf-users
  Cc: peterz, mingo, mark.rutland, alexander.shishkin, jolsa,
	adrian.hunter, kan.liang, dapeng1.mi, james.clark, Anubhav Shelat

Previously when running perf trace timehist --state, when recording
processes in the zombie state the process name would not be decoded
properly and appears with just the PID:

1140057.412177 [0006]  Mutter Input Th[3139/3104]          0.956      0.019      0.041      S
1140057.412222 [0012]  :1248612[1248612]                   0.000      0.000      0.332      Z
1140057.412275 [0004]  <idle>                              0.052      0.052      0.953      I
1140057.412284 [0008]  <idle>                              0.070      0.070      0.932      I
1140057.412333 [0004]  KMS thread[3126/3104]               0.953      0.112      0.058      S

Now some extra processing has been added to decode the process name:

1140057.412177 [0006]  Mutter Input Th[3139/3104]          0.956      0.019      0.041      S
1140057.412222 [0012]  sleep[1248612]                      0.000      0.000      0.332      Z
1140057.412275 [0004]  <idle>                              0.052      0.052      0.953      I
1140057.412284 [0008]  <idle>                              0.070      0.070      0.932      I
1140057.412333 [0004]  KMS thread[3126/3104]               0.953      0.112      0.058      S

Signed-off-by: Anubhav Shelat <ashelat@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-sched.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
index 26ece6e9bfd1..e1a931341bc8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
@@ -2023,11 +2023,15 @@ static int comm_width = 30;
 static char *timehist_get_commstr(struct thread *thread)
 {
 	static char str[32];
-	const char *comm = thread__comm_str(thread);
+	char *comm = (char *) thread__comm_str(thread);
+	char *empty = (char *) "";
 	pid_t tid = thread__tid(thread);
 	pid_t pid = thread__pid(thread);
 	int n;
 
+	if (*comm == ':')
+		comm = empty;
+
 	if (pid == 0)
 		n = scnprintf(str, sizeof(str), "%s", comm);
 
@@ -2147,6 +2151,8 @@ static void timehist_print_sample(struct perf_sched *sched,
 	struct thread_runtime *tr = thread__priv(thread);
 	const char *next_comm = evsel__strval(evsel, sample, "next_comm");
 	const u32 next_pid = evsel__intval(evsel, sample, "next_pid");
+	const char *prev_comm = evsel__strval(evsel, sample, "prev_comm");
+	char *comm_str = timehist_get_commstr(thread);
 	u32 max_cpus = sched->max_cpu.cpu + 1;
 	char tstr[64];
 	char nstr[30];
@@ -2173,8 +2179,15 @@ static void timehist_print_sample(struct perf_sched *sched,
 		}
 		printf(" ");
 	}
-
-	printf(" %-*s ", comm_width, timehist_get_commstr(thread));
+	
+	/* if a process is in zombie state commstr will start with a '[' and 
+	 * we need to do extra processing to decode the process name */
+	if (*comm_str == '[') {
+		printf(" %s", evsel__strval(evsel, sample, "prev_comm"));
+		printf("%-*s ", comm_width - (int) strlen(prev_comm), comm_str);
+	}
+	else
+		printf(" %-*s ", comm_width, comm_str);
 
 	if (sched->show_prio)
 		printf(" %-*s ", MAX_PRIO_STR_LEN, timehist_get_priostr(evsel, thread, sample));
-- 
2.50.0


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