4.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> commit be96b316deff35e119760982c43af74e606fa143 upstream. The following commit: 864c2357ca89 ("perf/core: Do not set cpuctx->cgrp for unscheduled cgroups") made list_update_cgroup_event() skip setting cpuctx->cgrp if no cgroup event targets %current's cgroup. This breaks perf_event's hierarchical support because events which target one of the ancestors get ignored. Fix it by using cgroup_is_descendant() test instead of equality. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx Fixes: 864c2357ca89 ("perf/core: Do not set cpuctx->cgrp for unscheduled cgroups") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171028164237.GA972780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -901,9 +901,11 @@ list_update_cgroup_event(struct perf_eve cpuctx_entry = &cpuctx->cgrp_cpuctx_entry; /* cpuctx->cgrp is NULL unless a cgroup event is active in this CPU .*/ if (add) { + struct perf_cgroup *cgrp = perf_cgroup_from_task(current, ctx); + list_add(cpuctx_entry, this_cpu_ptr(&cgrp_cpuctx_list)); - if (perf_cgroup_from_task(current, ctx) == event->cgrp) - cpuctx->cgrp = event->cgrp; + if (cgroup_is_descendant(cgrp->css.cgroup, event->cgrp->css.cgroup)) + cpuctx->cgrp = cgrp; } else { list_del(cpuctx_entry); cpuctx->cgrp = NULL;