linux/tools
Hari Bathini d890a98c92 perf tools: Add 'cgroup_id' sort order keyword
This patch introduces a cgroup identifier entry field in perf report to
identify or distinguish data of different cgroups. It uses the device
number and inode number of cgroup namespace, included in perf data with
the new PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES event, as cgroup identifier.

With the assumption that each container is created with it's own cgroup
namespace,  this allows assessment/analysis of multiple containers at
once.

A simple test for this would be to clone a few processes passing
SIGCHILD & CLONE_NEWCROUP flags to each of them, execute shell and run
different workloads  on each of those contexts,  while running perf
record command with --namespaces option.

Shown below is the output of perf report, sorted with cgroup identifier,
on perf.data generated with the above test scenario, clearly indicating
one context's considerable use of kernel memory in comparison with
others:

	$ perf report -s cgroup_id,sample --stdio
	#
	# Total Lost Samples: 0
	#
	# Samples: 5K of event 'kmem:kmalloc'
	# Event count (approx.): 5965
	#
	# Overhead  cgroup id (dev/inode)       Samples
	# ........  .....................  ............
	#
	    81.27%  3/0xeffffffb                   4848
	    16.24%  3/0xf00000d0                    969
	     1.16%  3/0xf00000ce                     69
	     0.82%  3/0xf00000cf                     49
	     0.50%  0/0x0                            30

While this is a start, there is further scope of improving this. For
example, instead of cgroup namespace's device and inode numbers, dev
and inode numbers of some or all namespaces may be used to distinguish
which processes are running in a given container context.

Also, scripts to map device and inode info to containers sounds
plausible for better tracing of containers.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891933338.25309.756882900782042645.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-03-14 15:17:37 -03:00
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accounting tools: move accounting tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:15 -06:00
arch tools arch x86: Introduce atomic_cmpxchg() 2017-03-03 19:07:13 -03:00
build tools build: Use the same CC for feature detection and actual build 2017-03-03 19:07:19 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio gpio-hammer: fix make consumer_label suitable to work on gpio-nails 2017-01-26 16:29:09 +01:00
hv Char/Misc driver patches for 4.10-rc1 2016-12-13 12:11:01 -08:00
iio iio: Add channel for Gravity 2017-01-05 13:02:25 +00:00
include perf tools: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info 2017-03-14 11:38:23 -03:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop tools: move laptops dslm tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:21 -06:00
leds tools/leds: Add led_hw_brightness_mon program 2017-02-14 22:20:23 +01:00
lguest tools/lguest: Don't bork the terminal in case of wrong args 2016-09-08 08:05:24 +02:00
lib Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-28 11:38:18 -08:00
net
nfsd
objtool objtool, modules: Discard objtool annotation sections for modules 2017-03-01 20:32:25 +01:00
pcmcia tools: move pcmcia crc32hash tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:27 -06:00
perf perf tools: Add 'cgroup_id' sort order keyword 2017-03-14 15:17:37 -03:00
power Power management turbostat utility updates for v4.11-rc1 2017-03-02 17:41:27 -08:00
scripts tools arch x86: Include asm/cmpxchg.h 2017-03-03 19:07:13 -03:00
spi spi: spidev_test: Fix input file check when transferring file 2016-11-04 09:56:09 -06:00
testing Second batch of KVM changes for 4.11 merge window 2017-03-04 11:36:19 -08:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb USB: changes for v4.11 2017-01-26 15:36:28 +01:00
virtio tools/virtio/ringtest: tweaks for s390 2017-01-19 23:46:32 +02:00
vm tools/vm: add missing Makefile rules 2017-02-22 16:41:26 -08:00
Makefile tools/leds: Add uledmon program for monitoring userspace LEDs 2016-11-22 12:07:02 +01:00