From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Otherwise when debugging we see just "python" in perf, top, etc.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py b/tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py
index 38b2b6d11f64566a..15b0c82689966f23 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)
--
2.48.1