Add a comment to perf_session__register_idle_thread() to bring attention to
a pitfall with the idle task thread structure. The pitfall is that there
should really be a 'struct thread' for the idle task of each cpu, but there
is only one that can have pid == tid == 0.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181221120620.9659-9-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
return machine__findnew_thread(&session->machines.host, -1, pid);
}
+/*
+ * Threads are identified by pid and tid, and the idle task has pid == tid == 0.
+ * So here a single thread is created for that, but actually there is a separate
+ * idle task per cpu, so there should be one 'struct thread' per cpu, but there
+ * is only 1. That causes problems for some tools, requiring workarounds. For
+ * example get_idle_thread() in builtin-sched.c, or thread_stack__per_cpu().
+ */
int perf_session__register_idle_thread(struct perf_session *session)
{
struct thread *thread;