perf tools: Speed up thread map generation
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. -- 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.comSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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