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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>2025-03-12 20:31:38 +0000
committerNamhyung Kim <[email protected]>2025-03-18 23:08:22 +0000
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parentperf python: Remove some unused macros (_PyUnicode_FromString(arg), etc) (diff)
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perf python tracepoint.py: Change the COMM using setproctitle if available
Otherwise when debugging we see just "python" in perf, top, etc. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py b/tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py
index 38b2b6d11f64..15b0c8268996 100755
--- a/tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py
+++ b/tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py
@@ -5,7 +5,15 @@
import perf
+def change_proctitle():
+ try:
+ import setproctitle
+ setproctitle.setproctitle("tracepoint.py")
+ except:
+ print("Install the setproctitle python package to help with top and friends")
+
def main():
+ change_proctitle()
cpus = perf.cpu_map()
threads = perf.thread_map(-1)
evlist = perf.parse_events("sched:sched_switch", cpus, threads)