Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf/core: Support reading group events with shared cgroups

[Song Liu]

> On Mar 23, 2021, at 9:21 AM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> This enables reading event group's counter values together with a
> PERF_EVENT_IOC_READ_CGROUP command like we do in the regular read().
> Users should give a correct size of buffer to be read.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/events/core.c | 119 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 116 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

[...]

> +}
> +
> +static int perf_event_read_cgrp_node_group(struct perf_event *event, u64 cgrp_id,
> +					   char __user *buf)
> +{
> +	struct perf_cgroup_node *cgrp;
> +	struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;
> +	struct perf_event *sibling;
> +	u64 read_format = event->attr.read_format;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	u64 *values;
> +	int n = 1;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	values = kzalloc(event->read_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!values)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	values[0] = 1 + event->nr_siblings;
> +
> +	/* update event count and times (possibly run on other cpu) */
> +	(void)perf_event_read(event, true);
> +
> +	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->lock, flags);
> +
> +	cgrp = find_cgroup_node(event, cgrp_id);
> +	if (cgrp == NULL) {
> +		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, flags);
> +		kfree(values);
> +		return -ENOENT;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (read_format & PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED)
> +		values[n++] = cgrp->time_enabled;
> +	if (read_format & PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING)
> +		values[n++] = cgrp->time_running;
> +
> +	values[n++] = cgrp->count;
> +	if (read_format & PERF_FORMAT_ID)
> +		values[n++] = primary_event_id(event);
> +
> +	for_each_sibling_event(sibling, event) {
> +		n += perf_event_read_cgrp_node_sibling(sibling, read_format,
> +						       cgrp_id, &values[n]);
> +	}
> +
> +	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, flags);
> +
> +	ret = copy_to_user(buf, values, n * sizeof(u64));
> +	kfree(values);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +
> +	return n * sizeof(u64);
> +}
> +
> +static int perf_event_read_cgroup_node(struct perf_event *event, u64 read_size,
> +				       u64 cgrp_id, char __user *buf)
> +{
> +	u64 read_format = event->attr.read_format;
> +
> +	if (read_size < event->read_size + 2 * sizeof(u64))

Why do we need read_size + 2 u64 here? 

Thanks,
Song

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