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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2025-03-12 17:31:38 -0300
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2025-03-18 16:08:22 -0700
commita570da214819fa2bd26b8edcaf857867f55e60c5 (patch)
treefbce840caa171ad65272be244ae503596e38f183 /tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py
parent1882625c9113a3cf775dd46695466c80b922991d (diff)
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 <acme@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312203141.285263-4-acme@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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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)