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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] perf: update perf_cgroup time for ancestor cgroup(s)
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Dear Peter, 

Could you please share your comments/suggestions on this patch? We would
like to fix this issue in our kernel, as we are using perf events with
nested cgroups.

Thanks,
Song

> On Mar 12, 2018, at 9:59 AM, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> wrote:
>
> When a perf_event is attached to parent cgroup, it should count events
> for all children cgroups:
>
> parent_group <---- perf_event
> \
> - child_group <---- process(es)
>
> However, in our tests, we found this perf_event cannot report reliable
> results. Here is an example case:
>
> # create cgroups
> mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/p/c
> # start perf for parent group
> perf stat -e instructions -G "p"
>
> # on another console, run test process in child cgroup:
> stressapptest -s 2 -M 1000 & echo $! > /sys/fs/cgroup/p/c/cgroup.procs
>
> # after the test process is done, stop perf in the first console shows
>
> <not counted> instructions p
>
> The instruction should not be "not counted" as the process runs in the
> child cgroup.
>
> We found this is because perf_event->cgrp and cpuctx->cgrp are not
> identical, thus perf_event->cgrp are not updated properly.
>
> This patch fixes this by updating perf_cgroup properly for ancestor
> cgroup(s).
>
> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
> Reported-by: Ephraim Park <ephiepark@fb.com>
> ---
> kernel/events/core.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> index 5789810..6f015ff 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -724,9 +724,14 @@ static inline void __update_cgrp_time(struct perf_cgroup *cgrp)
>
> static inline void update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx(struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx)
> {
> - struct perf_cgroup *cgrp_out = cpuctx->cgrp;
> - if (cgrp_out)
> - __update_cgrp_time(cgrp_out);
> + struct perf_cgroup *cgrp = cpuctx->cgrp;
> + struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
> +
> + if (cgrp)
> + for (css = &cgrp->css; css; css = css->parent) {
> + cgrp = container_of(css, struct perf_cgroup, css);
> + __update_cgrp_time(cgrp);
> + }
> }
>
> static inline void update_cgrp_time_from_event(struct perf_event *event)
> @@ -754,6 +759,7 @@ perf_cgroup_set_timestamp(struct task_struct *task,
> {
> struct perf_cgroup *cgrp;
> struct perf_cgroup_info *info;
> + struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
>
> /*
> * ctx->lock held by caller
> @@ -764,8 +770,12 @@ perf_cgroup_set_timestamp(struct task_struct *task,
> return;
>
> cgrp = perf_cgroup_from_task(task, ctx);
> - info = this_cpu_ptr(cgrp->info);
> - info->timestamp = ctx->timestamp;
> +
> + for (css = &cgrp->css; css; css = css->parent) {
> + cgrp = container_of(css, struct perf_cgroup, css);
> + info = this_cpu_ptr(cgrp->info);
> + info->timestamp = ctx->timestamp;
> + }
> }
>
> static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct list_head, cgrp_cpuctx_list);
> --
> 2.9.5
>

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