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authorHari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-03-07 23:41:36 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-03-13 21:57:41 +0300
commite422267322cd319e2695a535e47c5b1feeac45eb (patch)
treed12374e72bae370972c4ee38db01ca1de844ae01 /include/linux/perf_event.h
parent3ef5b4023c64c16c793a066a7a2ed6ea3767e0d7 (diff)
downloadlinux-e422267322cd319e2695a535e47c5b1feeac45eb.tar.xz
perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info
With the advert of container technologies like docker, that depend on namespaces for isolation, there is a need for tracing support for namespaces. This patch introduces new PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES event for recording namespaces related info. By recording info for every namespace, it is left to userspace to take a call on the definition of a container and trace containers by updating perf tool accordingly. Each namespace has a combination of device and inode numbers. Though every namespace has the same device number currently, that may change in future to avoid the need for a namespace of namespaces. Considering such possibility, record both device and inode numbers separately for each namespace. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891929686.25309.2827618988917007768.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_event.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 000fdb211c7d..f19a82362851 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -1112,6 +1112,7 @@ extern int perf_unregister_guest_info_callbacks(struct perf_guest_info_callbacks
extern void perf_event_exec(void);
extern void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, bool exec);
+extern void perf_event_namespaces(struct task_struct *tsk);
extern void perf_event_fork(struct task_struct *tsk);
/* Callchains */
@@ -1315,6 +1316,7 @@ static inline int perf_unregister_guest_info_callbacks
static inline void perf_event_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { }
static inline void perf_event_exec(void) { }
static inline void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, bool exec) { }
+static inline void perf_event_namespaces(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
static inline void perf_event_fork(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
static inline void perf_event_init(void) { }
static inline int perf_swevent_get_recursion_context(void) { return -1; }