linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] perf: Correlating user process data to samples

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Message-ID: <20240412071245.GD30852@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:12:45 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Beau Belgrave <beaub@...ux.microsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] perf: Correlating user process data to samples

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 12:17:28AM +0000, Beau Belgrave wrote:

> An idea flow would look like this:
> User Task		Profile
> do_work();		sample() -> IP + No activity
> ...
> set_activity(123);
> ...
> do_work();		sample() -> IP + activity (123)
> ...
> set_activity(124);
> ...
> do_work();		sample() -> IP + activity (124)

This, start with this, because until I saw this, I was utterly confused
as to what the heck you were on about.

I started by thinking we already have TID in samples so you can already
associate back to user processes and got increasingly confused the
further I went.

What you seem to want to do however is have some task-state included so
you can see what the thread is doing.

Anyway, since we typically run stuff from NMI context, accessing user
data is 'interesting'. As such I would really like to make this work
depend on the call-graph rework that pushes all the user access bits
into return-to-user.