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authorAndrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>2012-07-11 18:14:58 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-07-31 17:02:05 +0200
commite6dab5ffab59e910ec0e3355f4a6f29f7a7be474 (patch)
tree87acf0fb071b8d09794ac7d834cb256de030cceb /kernel/events/callchain.c
parentd07bdfd322d307789f15b427dbcc39257665356f (diff)
downloadlinux-e6dab5ffab59e910ec0e3355f4a6f29f7a7be474.tar.bz2
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events/callchain.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/callchain.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c
index 6581a040f399..98d4597f43d6 100644
--- a/kernel/events/callchain.c
+++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c
@@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ put_callchain_entry(int rctx)
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 @@ struct perf_callchain_entry *perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs)
}
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);
}