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perf core: Add PERF_COUNT_SW_CGROUP_SWITCHES event
authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:33:26 +0000 (17:33 +0900)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:58:52 +0000 (18:58 +0200)
commit73278a6e416e126d31ec4778065e47360889c897
treed401d43e406558d2a54b772ef75f9f27c6185e69
parentf284a9a7e1f148d274b65d74ed9c028999794a6c
perf core: Add PERF_COUNT_SW_CGROUP_SWITCHES event

This patch adds a new software event to count context switches
involving cgroup switches.  So it's counted only if cgroups of
previous and next tasks are different.  Note that it only checks the
cgroups in the perf_event subsystem.  For cgroup v2, it shouldn't
matter anyway.

One can argue that we can do this by using existing sched_switch event
with eBPF.  But some systems might not have eBPF for some reason so
I'd like to add this as a simple way.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210210083327.22726-2-namhyung@kernel.org
include/linux/perf_event.h
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h