Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] perf: Filter events based on perf-namespace

Aravinda Prasad
2016-06-28T11:41:30Z

On Monday 27 June 2016 09:20 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:19:51PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote:
>> Whenever perf tool is executed inside a container, this
>> patch restricts the events to the perf-namespace in which
>> the perf tool is executing.
>>
>> This patch is based on the existing support available
>> for tracing with cgroups.
>>
>> TODO:
>> - Avoid code duplication.
>
> Can't you, at perf_event_open() time, convert a per-cpu event into a
> per-cpu-per-cgroup event for these namespace thingies?
>
> That seems to immediately and completely remove all that duplication.
>

Yes.. that seems possible. Let me check that out.

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Regards,
Aravinda