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.
Shown below is the output of perf report, sorted based on cgroup id, on
a system that was running three containers at the time of perf record
and clearly showing one of the containers' considerable use of kernel
memory in comparison with others:
$ perf report -s cgroup_id,sample --stdio
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 16K of event 'kmem:kmalloc'
# Event count (approx.): 16043
#
# Overhead cgroup id (dev/inode) Samples
# ........ ..................... ............
#
96.33% 3/0xf00000d0 15454
3.02% 3/0xeffffffb 485
0.31% 3/0xf00000ce 49
0.29% 3/0xf00000cf 47
0.05% 0/0x0 8
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 <hbath...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
tools/perf/util/hist.c | 7 +++++++
tools/perf/util/hist.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/sort.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/util/sort.h | 7 +++++++
4 files changed, 56 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.c b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
index 32c6a93..559ea27 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
#include "hist.h"
#include "map.h"
#include "session.h"
+#include "namespaces.h"
#include "sort.h"
#include "evlist.h"
#include "evsel.h"
@@ -169,6 +170,7 @@ void hists__calc_col_len(struct hists *hists, struct
hist_entry *h)
hists__set_unres_dso_col_len(hists, HISTC_MEM_DADDR_DSO);
}
+ hists__new_col_len(hists, HISTC_CGROUP_ID, 20);
hists__new_col_len(hists, HISTC_CPU, 3);
hists__new_col_len(hists, HISTC_SOCKET, 6);
hists__new_col_len(hists, HISTC_MEM_LOCKED, 6);
@@ -574,9 +576,14 @@ __hists__add_entry(struct hists *hists,
bool sample_self,
struct hist_entry_ops *ops)
{
+ struct namespaces *ns = thread__namespaces(al->thread);
struct hist_entry entry = {
.thread = al->thread,
.comm = thread__comm(al->thread),
+ .cgroup_id = {
+ .dev = ns ? ns->link_info[CGROUP_NS_INDEX].dev : 0,
+ .ino = ns ? ns->link_info[CGROUP_NS_INDEX].ino : 0,
+ },
.ms = {
.map = al->map,
.sym = al->sym,
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.h b/tools/perf/util/hist.h
index 28c216e..4c1da48 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hist.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ enum hist_column {
HISTC_DSO,
HISTC_THREAD,
HISTC_COMM,
+ HISTC_CGROUP_ID,
HISTC_PARENT,
HISTC_CPU,
HISTC_SOCKET,
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
index df622f4..9f5f404 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
@@ -536,6 +536,46 @@ struct sort_entry sort_cpu = {
.se_width_idx = HISTC_CPU,
};
+/* --sort cgroup_id */
+
+static int64_t _sort__cgroup_dev_cmp(u64 left_dev, u64 right_dev)
+{
+ return (int64_t)(right_dev - left_dev);
+}
+
+static int64_t _sort__cgroup_inode_cmp(u64 left_ino, u64 right_ino)
+{
+ return (int64_t)(right_ino - left_ino);
+}
+
+static int64_t
+sort__cgroup_id_cmp(struct hist_entry *left, struct hist_entry *right)
+{
+ int64_t ret;
+
+ ret = _sort__cgroup_dev_cmp(right->cgroup_id.dev, left->cgroup_id.dev);
+ if (ret != 0)
+ return ret;
+
+ return _sort__cgroup_inode_cmp(right->cgroup_id.ino,
+ left->cgroup_id.ino);
+}
+
+static int hist_entry__cgroup_id_snprintf(struct hist_entry *he,
+ char *bf, size_t size,
+ unsigned int width __maybe_unused)
+{
+ return repsep_snprintf(bf, size, "%lu/0x%lx", he->cgroup_id.dev,
+ he->cgroup_id.ino);
+}
+
+struct sort_entry sort_cgroup_id = {
+ .se_header = "cgroup id (dev/inode)",
+ .se_cmp = sort__cgroup_id_cmp,
+ .se_snprintf = hist_entry__cgroup_id_snprintf,
+ .se_width_idx = HISTC_CGROUP_ID,
+};
+
/* --sort socket */
static int64_t
@@ -1418,6 +1458,7 @@ static struct sort_dimension common_sort_dimensions[] = {
DIM(SORT_GLOBAL_WEIGHT, "weight", sort_global_weight),
DIM(SORT_TRANSACTION, "transaction", sort_transaction),
DIM(SORT_TRACE, "trace", sort_trace),
+ DIM(SORT_CGROUP_ID, "cgroup_id", sort_cgroup_id),
};
#undef DIM
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.h b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
index 7aff317..68a5abb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/sort.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ struct he_stat {
u32 nr_events;
};
+struct namespace_id {
+ u64 dev;
+ u64 ino;
+};
+
struct hist_entry_diff {
bool computed;
union {
@@ -91,6 +96,7 @@ struct hist_entry {
struct map_symbol ms;
struct thread *thread;
struct comm *comm;
+ struct namespace_id cgroup_id;
u64 ip;
u64 transaction;
s32 socket;
@@ -211,6 +217,7 @@ enum sort_type {
SORT_GLOBAL_WEIGHT,
SORT_TRANSACTION,
SORT_TRACE,
+ SORT_CGROUP_ID,
/* branch stack specific sort keys */
__SORT_BRANCH_STACK,
