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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c index 882cd1f721d9..435bbfd00551 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/mman.h> +#include <sys/prctl.h> #include <linux/bitops.h> #include <linux/hash.h> @@ -1406,6 +1407,13 @@ int evlist__prepare_workload(struct evlist *evlist, struct target *target, const fcntl(go_pipe[0], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC); /* + * Change the name of this process not to confuse --exclude-perf users + * that sees 'perf' in the window up to the execvp() and thinks that + * perf samples are not being excluded. + */ + prctl(PR_SET_NAME, "perf-exec"); + + /* * Tell the parent we're ready to go */ close(child_ready_pipe[1]); |