perf report: Separate out idle threads

Introduce the special comm name [idle] for idle theads.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
index 19c1e056bb66..6d68f3aa86b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
@@ -612,6 +612,17 @@ static size_t output__fprintf(FILE *fp, uint64_t total_samples)
         return ret;
 }
 
+static void register_idle_thread(void)
+{
+        struct thread *thread = threads__findnew(0);
+
+        if (thread == NULL ||
+                        thread__set_comm(thread, "[idle]")) {
+                fprintf(stderr, "problem inserting idle task.\n");
+                exit(-1);
+        }
+}
+
 
 static int __cmd_report(void)
 {
@@ -626,6 +637,8 @@ static int __cmd_report(void)
         char cwd[PATH_MAX], *cwdp = cwd;
         int cwdlen;
 
+        register_idle_thread();
+
         input = open(input_name, O_RDONLY);
         if (input < 0) {
                 perror("failed to open file");