linux/tools
Stephane Eranian 023695d96e 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>
2011-02-16 13:30:48 +01:00
..
firewire tools/firewire: nosy-dump: increment program version 2010-07-27 11:04:12 +02:00
perf perf tool: Add cgroup support 2011-02-16 13:30:48 +01:00
power/x86 tools: turbostat: style updates 2011-02-10 23:58:13 -05:00
slub slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c 2010-11-06 09:04:32 +02:00
testing/ktest ktest: Ask for the manditory config options instead of just failing 2010-11-18 15:39:48 -05:00
usb USB: testusb: testusb compatibility with FunctionFS gadget 2010-05-20 13:21:43 -07:00
virtio tools/virtio: virtio_test tool 2010-12-09 16:00:22 +02:00