linux/kernel/events
Song Liu c917e0f259 perf/cgroup: Fix child event counting bug
When a perf_event is attached to parent cgroup, it should count events
for all children cgroups:

   parent_group   <---- perf_event
     \
      - child_group  <---- process(es)

However, in our tests, we found this perf_event cannot report reliable
results. Here is an example case:

  # create cgroups
  mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/p/c
  # start perf for parent group
  perf stat -e instructions -G "p"

  # on another console, run test process in child cgroup:
  stressapptest -s 2 -M 1000 & echo $! > /sys/fs/cgroup/p/c/cgroup.procs

  # after the test process is done, stop perf in the first console shows

       <not counted>      instructions              p

The instruction should not be "not counted" as the process runs in the
child cgroup.

We found this is because perf_event->cgrp and cpuctx->cgrp are not
identical, thus perf_event->cgrp are not updated properly.

This patch fixes this by updating perf_cgroup properly for ancestor
cgroup(s).

Reported-by: Ephraim Park <ephiepark@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: <kernel-team@fb.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312165943.1057894-1-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-03-20 08:58:47 +01:00
..
callchain.c perf: Make perf_callchain function static 2018-01-08 12:33:01 -03:00
core.c perf/cgroup: Fix child event counting bug 2018-03-20 08:58:47 +01:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf: Collapse and fix event_function_call() users 2016-01-21 18:54:24 +01:00
internal.h perf: Make perf_callchain function static 2018-01-08 12:33:01 -03:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ring_buffer.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
uprobes.c uprobes: Remove now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends() 2017-12-04 10:52:55 -08:00