perf: Allocate context task_ctx_data for child event
Currently we use perf_event_context::task_ctx_data to save and restore the LBR status when the task is scheduled out and in. We don't allocate it for child contexts, which results in shorter task's LBR stack, because we don't save the history from previous run and start over every time we schedule the task in. I made a test to generate samples with LBR call stack and got higher numbers on bigger chain depths: before: after: LBR call chain: nr: 1 60561 498127 LBR call chain: nr: 2 0 0 LBR call chain: nr: 3 107030 2172 LBR call chain: nr: 4 466685 62758 LBR call chain: nr: 5 2307319 878046 LBR call chain: nr: 6 48713 495218 LBR call chain: nr: 7 1040 4551 LBR call chain: nr: 8 481 172 LBR call chain: nr: 9 878 120 LBR call chain: nr: 10 2377 6698 LBR call chain: nr: 11 28830 151487 LBR call chain: nr: 12 29347 339867 LBR call chain: nr: 13 4 22 LBR call chain: nr: 14 3 53 Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Fixes: 4af57ef2 ("perf: Add pmu specific data for perf task context") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107160356.28203-4-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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