perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events
A few events are interesting not only for a current task.
For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task
which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such
events will be delivered to a target task too.
Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task().
The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra.
I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for
getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods.
These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by
perf tools.
Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c
index 6581a04..98d4597 100644
--- a/kernel/events/callchain.c
+++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c
@@ -153,7 +153,8 @@
put_recursion_context(__get_cpu_var(callchain_recursion), rctx);
}
-struct perf_callchain_entry *perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs)
+struct perf_callchain_entry *
+perf_callchain(struct perf_event *event, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
int rctx;
struct perf_callchain_entry *entry;
@@ -178,6 +179,12 @@
}
if (regs) {
+ /*
+ * Disallow cross-task user callchains.
+ */
+ if (event->ctx->task && event->ctx->task != current)
+ goto exit_put;
+
perf_callchain_store(entry, PERF_CONTEXT_USER);
perf_callchain_user(entry, regs);
}
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index f1cf0ed..b7935fc 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -4039,7 +4039,7 @@
if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN) {
int size = 1;
- data->callchain = perf_callchain(regs);
+ data->callchain = perf_callchain(event, regs);
if (data->callchain)
size += data->callchain->nr;
@@ -5209,7 +5209,8 @@
}
void perf_tp_event(u64 addr, u64 count, void *record, int entry_size,
- struct pt_regs *regs, struct hlist_head *head, int rctx)
+ struct pt_regs *regs, struct hlist_head *head, int rctx,
+ struct task_struct *task)
{
struct perf_sample_data data;
struct perf_event *event;
@@ -5228,6 +5229,31 @@
perf_swevent_event(event, count, &data, regs);
}
+ /*
+ * If we got specified a target task, also iterate its context and
+ * deliver this event there too.
+ */
+ if (task && task != current) {
+ struct perf_event_context *ctx;
+ struct trace_entry *entry = record;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ ctx = rcu_dereference(task->perf_event_ctxp[perf_sw_context]);
+ if (!ctx)
+ goto unlock;
+
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(event, &ctx->event_list, event_entry) {
+ if (event->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT)
+ continue;
+ if (event->attr.config != entry->type)
+ continue;
+ if (perf_tp_event_match(event, &data, regs))
+ perf_swevent_event(event, count, &data, regs);
+ }
+unlock:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ }
+
perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(rctx);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_tp_event);
diff --git a/kernel/events/internal.h b/kernel/events/internal.h
index b0b107f..a096c19 100644
--- a/kernel/events/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/events/internal.h
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@
}
/* Callchain handling */
-extern struct perf_callchain_entry *perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs);
+extern struct perf_callchain_entry *
+perf_callchain(struct perf_event *event, struct pt_regs *regs);
extern int get_callchain_buffers(void);
extern void put_callchain_buffers(void);