6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d29d92df410e2fb523f640478b18f70c1823e55e ] Since 9ffa6c7512ca ("perf machine thread: Remove exited threads by default") perf cleans exited threads up, but as said, sometimes they are necessary to be kept. The mentioned commit does not cover all the cases, we also need the information to construct the summary table in perf-trace. Before: # perf trace -s true Summary of events: After: # perf trace -s -- true Summary of events: true (383382), 64 events, 91.4% syscall calls errors total min avg max stddev (msec) (msec) (msec) (msec) (%) --------------- -------- ------ -------- --------- --------- --------- ------ mmap 8 0 0.150 0.013 0.019 0.031 11.90% mprotect 3 0 0.045 0.014 0.015 0.017 6.47% openat 2 0 0.014 0.006 0.007 0.007 9.73% munmap 1 0 0.009 0.009 0.009 0.009 0.00% access 1 1 0.009 0.009 0.009 0.009 0.00% pread64 4 0 0.006 0.001 0.001 0.002 4.53% fstat 2 0 0.005 0.001 0.002 0.003 37.59% arch_prctl 2 1 0.003 0.001 0.002 0.002 25.91% read 1 0 0.003 0.003 0.003 0.003 0.00% close 2 0 0.003 0.001 0.001 0.001 3.86% brk 1 0 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.00% rseq 1 0 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.00% prlimit64 1 0 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.00% set_robust_list 1 0 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.00% set_tid_address 1 0 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.00% execve 1 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.00% [namhyung: simplified the condition] Fixes: 9ffa6c7512ca ("perf machine thread: Remove exited threads by default") Reported-by: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240927151926.399474-1-mpetlan@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c index d3f11b90d0255..4cc942f7fec7d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c @@ -5449,6 +5449,10 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv) if (trace.summary_only) trace.summary = trace.summary_only; + /* Keep exited threads, otherwise information might be lost for summary */ + if (trace.summary) + symbol_conf.keep_exited_threads = true; + if (output_name != NULL) { err = trace__open_output(&trace, output_name); if (err < 0) { -- 2.43.0