perf/cgroup: Fix child event counting bug
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). Reported-by: Ephraim Park <ephiepark@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: <kernel-team@fb.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312165943.1057894-1-songliubraving@fb.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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