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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-trace.c9
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
index a93e91aad583..37773854d5c4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
--time
Print full timestamp rather time relative to first sample.
+--comm::
+ Show process COMM right beside its ID, on by default, disable with --no-comm.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-script[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 8a09ba3dcd97..be658433d3bb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -726,6 +726,7 @@ struct trace {
struct intlist *pid_list;
bool sched;
bool multiple_threads;
+ bool show_comm;
double duration_filter;
double runtime_ms;
};
@@ -755,8 +756,11 @@ static size_t trace__fprintf_entry_head(struct trace *trace, struct thread *thre
size_t printed = trace__fprintf_tstamp(trace, tstamp, fp);
printed += fprintf_duration(duration, fp);
- if (trace->multiple_threads)
+ if (trace->multiple_threads) {
+ if (trace->show_comm)
+ printed += fprintf(fp, "%.14s/", thread->comm);
printed += fprintf(fp, "%d ", thread->tid);
+ }
return printed;
}
@@ -1503,10 +1507,13 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
.mmap_pages = 1024,
},
.output = stdout,
+ .show_comm = true,
};
const char *output_name = NULL;
const char *ev_qualifier_str = NULL;
const struct option trace_options[] = {
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "comm", &trace.show_comm,
+ "show the thread COMM next to its id"),
OPT_STRING('e', "expr", &ev_qualifier_str, "expr",
"list of events to trace"),
OPT_STRING('o', "output", &output_name, "file", "output file name"),