When trying to capture perf data on a system running spejbb2013, perf
hung for about 15 minutes. This is because it took that long to gather
about 10,000 thread maps and process them.
I don't think a user wants to wait that long.
Instead, recognize that thread maps are roughly equivalent to pid maps
and just quickly copy those instead.
To do this, I synthesize 'fork' events, this eventually calls
thread__fork() and copies the maps over.
The overhead goes from 15 minutes down to about a few seconds.
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V2: based on Jiri's comments, moved malloc up a level
and made sure the memory was freed
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394808224-113774-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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