From e6dab5ffab59e910ec0e3355f4a6f29f7a7be474 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Vagin Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:14:58 +0400 Subject: 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 Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Arun Sharma Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/callchain.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/events/callchain.c') 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); } -- cgit v1.2.3