linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] perf cgroup: simplify arguments if track multiple events for a cgroup

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:22:16 +0100
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, namhyung@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf cgroup: simplify arguments if track multiple
 events for a cgroup

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:48:09PM +0800, weiping zhang wrote:
> if use -G with one cgroup and -e with multiple events, only the first
> event has correct cgroup setting, all events from the second will track
> system-wide events.
> 
> if user want track multiple events for a specific cgroup, user must give
> parameters like follow:
> $ perf stat -e e1 -e e2 -e e3 -G test,test,test
> this patch simplify this case, just type one cgroup, like following:
> $ perf stat -e e1 -e e2 -e e3 -G test
> 
> $ mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event/test
> $ perf stat -e cycles -e cache-misses  -a -I 1000 -G test
> 
> before:
>      1.001007226      <not counted>      cycles                    test
>      1.001007226              7,506      cache-misses
> 
> after:
>      1.000834097      <not counted>      cycles                    test
>      1.000834097      <not counted>      cache-misses              test
> 
> Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@...ichuxing.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>

thanks,
jirka