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tracing: Treat recording comm for idle task as a success

Currently we stop recording comm for non-idle tasks when switching from/to idle
task since we treat that as a record failure. Fix that by treat recording of
comm for idle task as a success.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170706230023.17942-1-joelaf@google.com

Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Michael Sartain <mikesart@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Joel Fernandes 8 years ago
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1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
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      kernel/trace/trace.c

+ 5 - 1
kernel/trace/trace.c

@@ -1916,7 +1916,11 @@ static int trace_save_cmdline(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	unsigned pid, idx;
 
-	if (!tsk->pid || unlikely(tsk->pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT))
+	/* treat recording of idle task as a success */
+	if (!tsk->pid)
+		return 1;
+
+	if (unlikely(tsk->pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT))
 		return 0;
 
 	/*