[PATCH] perf/lock: enable end-timestamp accounting for cgroup aggregation
From: Suchit Karunakaran
Date: Mon Apr 20 2026 - 14:47:34 EST
update_lock_stat() handles lock contentions that start but never reach a
contention_end event (e.g., locks still held when profiling stops), but
previously treated LOCK_AGGR_CGROUP as a no-op due to missing cgroup
context in userspace; fix this by adding a cgroup_id field to
struct tstamp_data, recording it at contention_begin using
get_current_cgroup_id() when aggr_mode == LOCK_AGGR_CGROUP, and using
ts_data->cgroup_id to build the aggregation key in update_lock_stat(),
matching the contention_end behavior in BPF and ensuring correct
attribution of incomplete events.
Signed-off-by: Suchit Karunakaran <suchitkarunakaran@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c | 4 ++--
tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_contention.bpf.c | 2 ++
tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_data.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c
index cbd7435579fe..1a5bd2ff8ee4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c
@@ -463,8 +463,8 @@ static void update_lock_stat(int map_fd, int pid, u64 end_ts,
stat_key.lock_addr_or_cgroup = ts_data->lock;
break;
case LOCK_AGGR_CGROUP:
- /* TODO */
- return;
+ stat_key.lock_addr_or_cgroup = ts_data->cgroup_id;
+ break;
default:
return;
}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_contention.bpf.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_contention.bpf.c
index 96e7d853b9ed..d0e2cad02fa3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_contention.bpf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_contention.bpf.c
@@ -536,6 +536,8 @@ int contention_begin(u64 *ctx)
pelem->timestamp = bpf_ktime_get_ns();
pelem->lock = (__u64)ctx[0];
pelem->flags = (__u32)ctx[1];
+ if (aggr_mode == LOCK_AGGR_CGROUP)
+ pelem->cgroup_id = get_current_cgroup_id();
if (needs_callstack) {
u32 i = 0;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_data.h b/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_data.h
index 28c5e5aced7f..652e114e6b87 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_data.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_data.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ struct owner_tracing_data {
struct tstamp_data {
u64 timestamp;
u64 lock;
+ u64 cgroup_id;
u32 flags;
s32 stack_id;
};
--
2.53.0