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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/thread.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/thread.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/thread.c b/tools/perf/util/thread.c index 873ab505ca807..590793cc51424 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/thread.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/thread.c @@ -214,14 +214,24 @@ 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; } |