Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Add procfs based memory and network tool events

[Namhyung Kim]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 10:08:20AM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 8:51 AM Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > Add events for memory use and network activity based on data readily
> > > available in /prod/pid/statm, /proc/pid/smaps_rollup and
> > > /proc/pid/net/dev. For example the network usage of chrome processes
> > > on a system may be gathered with:
> > > ```
> > > $ perf stat -e
> > > net_rx_bytes,net_rx_compressed,net_rx_drop,net_rx_errors,net_rx_fifo,net_rx_frame,net_rx_multicast,net_rx_packets,net_tx_bytes,net_tx_carrier,net_tx_colls,net_tx_compressed,net_tx_drop,net_tx_errors,net_tx_fifo,net_tx_packets
> > > -p $(pidof -d, chrome) -I 1000
> >
> > But AFAIK that's for the complete network name space, not just the
> > process, thus highly misleading in perf context because the scope
> > is incompatible.
> 
> Yeah, we can point this out in the event descriptions or just not have
> the events and try to do some per process BPF type thing. Given we
> don't have the BPF thing it is still tempting to have these counters
> as-is for the system-wide case.

You may want to make it fail to open for per-process mode.

Thanks,
Namhyung