4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c917e0f259908e75bd2a65877e25f9d90c22c848 ] 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@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <kernel-team@xxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312165943.1057894-1-songliubraving@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -419,9 +419,15 @@ static inline void __update_cgrp_time(st static inline void update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx(struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx) { - struct perf_cgroup *cgrp_out = cpuctx->cgrp; - if (cgrp_out) - __update_cgrp_time(cgrp_out); + struct perf_cgroup *cgrp = cpuctx->cgrp; + struct cgroup_subsys_state *css; + + if (cgrp) { + for (css = &cgrp->css; css; css = css->parent) { + cgrp = container_of(css, struct perf_cgroup, css); + __update_cgrp_time(cgrp); + } + } } static inline void update_cgrp_time_from_event(struct perf_event *event) @@ -449,6 +455,7 @@ perf_cgroup_set_timestamp(struct task_st { struct perf_cgroup *cgrp; struct perf_cgroup_info *info; + struct cgroup_subsys_state *css; /* * ctx->lock held by caller @@ -459,8 +466,12 @@ perf_cgroup_set_timestamp(struct task_st return; cgrp = perf_cgroup_from_task(task, ctx); - info = this_cpu_ptr(cgrp->info); - info->timestamp = ctx->timestamp; + + for (css = &cgrp->css; css; css = css->parent) { + cgrp = container_of(css, struct perf_cgroup, css); + info = this_cpu_ptr(cgrp->info); + info->timestamp = ctx->timestamp; + } } #define PERF_CGROUP_SWOUT 0x1 /* cgroup switch out every event */