kernel/tools/perf/util/cgroup.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

perf auxtrace: Remove errno.h from auxtrace.h and fix transitive dependencies

2025-11-14T07:03:11Z

errno.h isn't used in auxtrace.h so remove it and fix build failures caused by transitive dependencies through auxtrace.h on errno.h. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf stat: Move metric list from config to evlist

2025-07-11T19:36:40Z

The rblist of metric_event that then have a list of associated metric_expr is moved out of the stat_config and into the evlist. This is done as part of refactoring things for python, having the state split in two places complicates that implementation. The evlist is doing the harder work of enabling and disabling events, the metrics are needed to compute a value and it doesn't seem unreasonable to hang them from the evlist. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250710235126.1086011-7-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf python: Add parse_events function

2024-12-18T19:24:33Z

Add basic parse_events function that takes a string and returns an evlist. As the python evlist is embedded in a pyrf_evlist, and the evsels are embedded in pyrf_evsels, copy the parsed data into those structs and update evsel__clone to enable this. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Veronika Molnarova Cc: Weilin Wang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241119011644.971342-20-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Ignore deleted cgroups

2024-05-10T13:52:46Z

On large systems, cgroups can be created and deleted often. That means there's a race between perf tools and cgroups when it gets the cgroup name and opens the cgroup. I got a report that 'perf stat' with many cgroups failed quite often due to the missing cgroups on such a large machine. I think we can ignore such cgroups when expanding events and use id 0 if it fails to read the cgroup id. IIUC 0 is not a vaild cgroup id so it won't update event counts for the failed cgroups. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240509182235.2319599-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf lock contention: Add -G/--cgroup-filter option

2023-09-12T20:32:00Z

The -G/--cgroup-filter is to limit lock contention collection on the tasks in the specific cgroups only. $ sudo ./perf lock con -abt -G /user.slice/.../vte-spawn-52221fb8-b33f-4a52-b5c3-e35d1e6fc0e0.scope \ ./perf bench sched messaging # Running 'sched/messaging' benchmark: # 20 sender and receiver processes per group # 10 groups == 400 processes run Total time: 0.174 [sec] contended total wait max wait avg wait pid comm 4 114.45 us 60.06 us 28.61 us 214847 sched-messaging 2 111.40 us 60.84 us 55.70 us 214848 sched-messaging 2 106.09 us 59.42 us 53.04 us 214837 sched-messaging 1 81.70 us 81.70 us 81.70 us 214709 sched-messaging 68 78.44 us 6.83 us 1.15 us 214633 sched-messaging 69 73.71 us 2.69 us 1.07 us 214632 sched-messaging 4 72.62 us 60.83 us 18.15 us 214850 sched-messaging 2 71.75 us 67.60 us 35.88 us 214840 sched-messaging 2 69.29 us 67.53 us 34.65 us 214804 sched-messaging 2 69.00 us 68.23 us 34.50 us 214826 sched-messaging ... Export cgroup__new() function as it's needed from outside. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Hao Luo Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Song Liu Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230906174903.346486-5-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add read_all_cgroups() and __cgroup_find()

2023-09-12T20:32:00Z

The read_all_cgroups() is to build a tree of cgroups in the system and users can look up a cgroup using __cgroup_find(). Committer notes: Had to do this to cover that #else block: -static inline u64 __read_cgroup_id(const char *path) { return -1ULL; } +static inline u64 __read_cgroup_id(const char *path __maybe_unused) { return -1ULL; } Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Hao Luo Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Song Liu Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230906174903.346486-2-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: Remove evsel metric_name/expr

2023-02-03T16:54:21Z

Metrics are their own unit and these variables held broken metrics previously and now just hold the value NULL. Remove code that used these variables. Reviewed-by: John Garry Reviewed-by: Kajol Jain Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Caleb Biggers Cc: Florian Fischer Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jing Zhang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Kang Minchul Cc: Kim Phillips Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Perry Taylor Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Sandipan Das Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xing Zhengjun Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230126233645.200509-8-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: Fix handling of --for-each-cgroup with --bpf-counters to match non BPF mode

2023-01-04T14:11:41Z

The --for-each-cgroup can have the same cgroup multiple times, but this confuses BPF counters (since they have the same cgroup id), making only the last cgroup events to be counted. Let's check the cgroup name before adding a new entry to the cgroups list. Before: $ sudo ./perf stat -a --bpf-counters --for-each-cgroup /,/ sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': msec cpu-clock / context-switches / cpu-migrations / page-faults / cycles / instructions / branches / branch-misses / 8,016.04 msec cpu-clock / # 7.998 CPUs utilized 6,152 context-switches / # 767.461 /sec 250 cpu-migrations / # 31.187 /sec 442 page-faults / # 55.139 /sec 613,111,487 cycles / # 0.076 GHz 280,599,604 instructions / # 0.46 insn per cycle 57,692,724 branches / # 7.197 M/sec 3,385,168 branch-misses / # 5.87% of all branches 1.002220125 seconds time elapsed After it becomes similar to the non-BPF mode: $ sudo ./perf stat -a --bpf-counters --for-each-cgroup /,/ sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 8,013.38 msec cpu-clock / # 7.998 CPUs utilized 6,859 context-switches / # 855.944 /sec 334 cpu-migrations / # 41.680 /sec 345 page-faults / # 43.053 /sec 782,326,119 cycles / # 0.098 GHz 471,645,724 instructions / # 0.60 insn per cycle 94,963,430 branches / # 11.851 M/sec 3,685,511 branch-misses / # 3.88% of all branches 1.001864539 seconds time elapsed Committer notes: As a reminder, to test with BPF counters one has to use BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 in the make command line and have clang/llvm installed when building perf, otherwise the --bpf-counters option will not be available: # perf stat -a --bpf-counters --for-each-cgroup /,/ sleep 1 Error: unknown option `bpf-counters' Usage: perf stat [] [] -a, --all-cpus system-wide collection from all CPUs # Fixes: bb1c15b60b981d10 ("perf stat: Support regex pattern in --for-each-cgroup") Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Song Liu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230104064402.1551516-5-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

libperf: Move 'leader' from tools/perf to perf_evsel::leader

2021-07-09T17:04:31Z

Move evsel::leader to perf_evsel::leader, so we can move the group interface to libperf. Also add several evsel helpers to ease up the transition: struct evsel *evsel__leader(struct evsel *evsel); - get leader evsel bool evsel__has_leader(struct evsel *evsel, struct evsel *leader); - true if evsel has leader as leader bool evsel__is_leader(struct evsel *evsel); - true if evsel is itw own leader void evsel__set_leader(struct evsel *evsel, struct evsel *leader); - set leader for evsel Committer notes: Fix this when building with 'make BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1' tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.c - if (evsel->leader->core.nr_members > 1) { + if (evsel->core.leader->nr_members > 1) { Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Requested-by: Shunsuke Nakamura Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210706151704.73662-4-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: Enable BPF counter with --for-each-cgroup

2021-07-05T17:16:57Z

Recently bperf was added to use BPF to count perf events for various purposes. This is an extension for the approach and targetting to cgroup usages. Unlike the other bperf, it doesn't share the events with other processes but it'd reduce unnecessary events (and the overhead of multiplexing) for each monitored cgroup within the perf session. When --for-each-cgroup is used with --bpf-counters, it will open cgroup-switches event per cpu internally and attach the new BPF program to read given perf_events and to aggregate the results for cgroups. It's only called when task is switched to a task in a different cgroup. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Song Liu Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210701211227.1403788-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo