linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET 0/9] perf: Improve cgroup profiling (v3)

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Message-ID: <CAM9d7cj06Hj3hOSdcyTpRWaoBY0wLjPpt7_+CbUqtsF-_08Czg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Dec 2019 09:40:04 +0900
From:   Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:     Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-perf-users <linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/9] perf: Improve cgroup profiling (v3)

Hi Vince,

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 2:35 AM Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>
> > This work is to improve cgroup profiling in perf.  Currently it only
> > supports profiling tasks in a specific cgroup and there's no way to
> > identify which cgroup the current sample belongs to.  So I added
> > PERF_SAMPLE_CGROUP to add cgroup id into each sample.  It's a 64-bit
> > integer having file handle of the cgroup.  And kernel also generates
> > PERF_RECORD_CGROUP event for new groups to correlate the cgroup id and
> > cgroup name (path in the cgroup filesystem).  The cgroup id can be
> > read from userspace by name_to_handle_at() system call so it can
> > synthesize the CGROUP event for existing groups.
>
> so is there a patch to the manpage that describes this new behavior in
> perf_event_open()?

Not yet.  I'll cook a patch once it's merged to the Linus' tree.

Thanks
Namhyung