Re: [PATCH] perf stat: Support old kernels for bperf cgroup counting

Namhyung Kim
2022-09-30T22:11:02Z

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 3:00 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<arnaldo.melo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> On September 30, 2022 6:56:40 PM GMT-03:00, Namhyung Kim <namhyung-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >Hi Jiri,
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> >On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 2:44 PM Jiri Olsa <olsajiri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 09:14:35PM -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> >> > The recent change in the cgroup will break the backward compatiblity in
> >> > the BPF program. It should support both old and new kernels using BPF
> >> > CO-RE technique.
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> >> > Like the task_struct->__state handling in the offcpu analysis, we can
> >> > check the field name in the cgroup struct.
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> >> > Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
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> >> > Arnaldo, I think this should go through the cgroup tree since it depends
> >> > on the earlier change there. I don't think it'd conflict with other
> >> > perf changes but please let me know if you see any trouble, thanks!
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> >> could you please paste the cgroup tree link?
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> >Do you mean this?
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> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git
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> Which branch and cset in that tree does you perf skel depends on?

I believe it's for-6.1 and the cset is in

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git/commit/?h=for-6.1&id=7f203bc89eb66d6afde7eae91347fc0352090cc3

Thanks,
Namhyung