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SubjectUsing perf_event_open() to sample multiple events of a process
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Hello Ken, Peter,

I would appreciate some help regarding the use of perf_event_open()
to have multiple samples getting into the same mmap’d memory when they
are both attached to the same process.

I am doing so (using both PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP and PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT),
but it results in -EINVAL. Debugging the code shows that
perf_event_set_output() fails due to the following check:

/*
* If its not a per-cpu rb, it must be the same task.
*/
if (output_event->cpu == -1 && output_event->ctx != event->ctx)
goto out;

However, it appears that at this point, event->ctx is not initialized
(it is null) so the test fails and the whole perf_event_open() syscall
fails.

Am I missing something? If not, I am unsure, unfortunately, what the
proper way to fix it is…

I include a small test that fails on my system. The second
perf_event_open fails due to the check in perf_event_set_output():




#define _GNU_SOURCE 1

#include <asm/unistd.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

long perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr* event_attr, pid_t pid, int cpu,
int group_fd, unsigned long flags)
{
return syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, event_attr, pid, cpu, group_fd, flags);
}

int main(void)
{
pid_t pid = getpid();
int group_fd, fd;
void *p;
struct perf_event_attr pe = {
.type = 4,
.size = sizeof(struct perf_event_attr),
.config = 0x11d0,
.sample_type = 0x8,
.sample_period = 1000,
.precise_ip = 2,
};

group_fd = perf_event_open(&pe, pid, -1, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC |
PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP |
PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT);

if (group_fd < 0) {
perror("first perf_event_open");
exit(-1);
}

p = mmap(NULL, 3 * 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, group_fd, 0);

if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
perror("MAP_FAILED");
exit(-1);
}

pe.config = 0x12d0;

fd = perf_event_open(&pe, pid, -1, group_fd, PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC |
PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP |
PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT);

if (fd < 0) {
perror("second perf_event_open");
exit(-1);
}

printf("success\n");
}

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