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 <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

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);
         }