Re: [PATCH 01/19] perf: sample after exit loses thread correlation - v3

David Ahern
2013-08-08T20:42:36Z

On 8/8/13 10:53 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:50:43PM -0400, David Ahern escreveu:
>> Occassionally events (e.g., context-switch, sched tracepoints) are losing
>> the conversion of sample data associated with a thread. For example:
>
> Humm, if we have a tool that traverses the list of threads in a machine
> it will not know, after one of them exits, about it being dead, so I
> think this needs to add a thread->dead, no?
>
> As of now, from what I can remember, the closest to such a tool would
> be:
>
> perf top --sort pid
>
> But that uses hist_entries that would eventually be decayed as samples
> would cease to be taken at most a few moments after the EXIT event.
>
> But at least for debugging purposes, machine__fprintf() would list dead
> threads as being present, i.e. alive till its pid gets reused.
>
> This is the only, minor, problem that I see with this solution, what do
> you think?

I can add the exit timestamp to the thread struct. non-0 means it has
died. Ok with that as an indicator?

David