perf tool: Add cgroup support

This patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on container groups
(cgroups) for both perf stat and perf record. It is possible to monitor
multiple cgroup in parallel. There is one cgroup per event. The cgroups to
monitor are passed via a new -G option followed by a comma separated list of
cgroup names.

The cgroup filesystem has to be mounted. Given a cgroup name, the perf tool
finds the corresponding directory in the cgroup filesystem and opens it. It
then passes that file descriptor to the kernel.

Example:

$ perf stat -B -a -e cycles:u,cycles:u,cycles:u -G test1,,test2 -- sleep 1
 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

      2,368,667,414  cycles                   test1
      2,369,661,459  cycles
      <not counted>  cycles                   test2

        1.001856890  seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4d590290.825bdf0a.7d0a.4890@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 12e0e41696d..a4aaadcb4c8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -807,6 +807,9 @@ const struct option record_options[] = {
 		    "do not update the buildid cache"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('B', "no-buildid", &no_buildid,
 		    "do not collect buildids in perf.data"),
+	OPT_CALLBACK('G', "cgroup", &evsel_list, "name",
+		     "monitor event in cgroup name only",
+		     parse_cgroups),
 	OPT_END()
 };
 
@@ -835,6 +838,12 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
 		write_mode = WRITE_FORCE;
 	}
 
+	if (nr_cgroups && !system_wide) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "cgroup monitoring only available in"
+			" system-wide mode\n");
+		usage_with_options(record_usage, record_options);
+	}
+
 	symbol__init();
 
 	if (no_buildid_cache || no_buildid)