perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info

With the advert of container technologies like docker, that depend on
namespaces for isolation, there is a need for tracing support for
namespaces. This patch introduces new PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES event for
recording namespaces related info. By recording info for every
namespace, it is left to userspace to take a call on the definition of a
container and trace containers by updating perf tool accordingly.

Each namespace has a combination of device and inode numbers. Though
every namespace has the same device number currently, that may change in
future to avoid the need for a namespace of namespaces. Considering such
possibility, record both device and inode numbers separately for each
namespace.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <[email protected]>
Cc: Aravinda Prasad <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Sargun Dhillon <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

2 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 000fdb211c7d..f19a82362851 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -1112,6 +1112,7 @@ extern int perf_unregister_guest_info_callbacks(struct perf_guest_info_callbacks
 
 extern void perf_event_exec(void);
 extern void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, bool exec);
+extern void perf_event_namespaces(struct task_struct *tsk);
 extern void perf_event_fork(struct task_struct *tsk);
 
 /* Callchains */
@@ -1315,6 +1316,7 @@ static inline int perf_unregister_guest_info_callbacks
 static inline void perf_event_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)		{ }
 static inline void perf_event_exec(void)				{ }
 static inline void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, bool exec)	{ }
+static inline void perf_event_namespaces(struct task_struct *tsk)	{ }
 static inline void perf_event_fork(struct task_struct *tsk)		{ }
 static inline void perf_event_init(void)				{ }
 static inline int  perf_swevent_get_recursion_context(void)		{ return -1; }
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index c66a485a24ac..bec0aad0e15c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
 				use_clockid    :  1, /* use @clockid for time fields */
 				context_switch :  1, /* context switch data */
 				write_backward :  1, /* Write ring buffer from end to beginning */
-				__reserved_1   : 36;
+				namespaces     :  1, /* include namespaces data */
+				__reserved_1   : 35;
 
 	union {
 		__u32		wakeup_events;	  /* wakeup every n events */
@@ -610,6 +611,23 @@ struct perf_event_header {
 	__u16	size;
 };
 
+struct perf_ns_link_info {
+	__u64	dev;
+	__u64	ino;
+};
+
+enum {
+	NET_NS_INDEX		= 0,
+	UTS_NS_INDEX		= 1,
+	IPC_NS_INDEX		= 2,
+	PID_NS_INDEX		= 3,
+	USER_NS_INDEX		= 4,
+	MNT_NS_INDEX		= 5,
+	CGROUP_NS_INDEX		= 6,
+
+	NR_NAMESPACES,		/* number of available namespaces */
+};
+
 enum perf_event_type {
 
 	/*
@@ -862,6 +880,18 @@ enum perf_event_type {
 	 */
 	PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE		= 15,
 
+	/*
+	 * struct {
+	 *	struct perf_event_header	header;
+	 *	u32				pid;
+	 *	u32				tid;
+	 *	u64				nr_namespaces;
+	 *	{ u64				dev, inode; } [nr_namespaces];
+	 *	struct sample_id		sample_id;
+	 * };
+	 */
+	PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES			= 16,
+
 	PERF_RECORD_MAX,			/* non-ABI */
 };