ui: group kthread process tracks in addition to thread tracks #3822
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This came up for traces containing perf samples + procfs trees, but no sched_switch to supply thread names. The result is that the grouped kernel thread tracks end up mostly anonymous (since the procfs scraping is only supplying the process names). Additionally, a subset of those threads does end up with a name due to the trace including "task_rename" ftrace events. On modern traces, we actually know if the "cmdline" field in the trace was set from /proc/pid/comm, so we can use that information to name the main thread as well.
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We're currently moving all thread-scoped tracks into the "Kernel
threads" group, but abandoning the process-scoped tracks. This patch
addresses that by adjusting ProcessThreadGroups.
While there, simplify the kthread query since there's a viz analog,
and remove the always-empty summary track (which makes the group track
thin, but I think that's fine).