On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 03:59:40PM -0700, Yonghong Song wrote:
> bpf has been used extensively for tracing. For example, bcc
> contains an almost full set of bpf-based tools to trace kernel
> and user functions/events. Most tracing tools are currently
> either filtered based on pid or system-wide.
> 
> Containers have been used quite extensively in industry and
> cgroup is often used together to provide resource isolation
> and protection. Several processes may run inside the same
> container. It is often desirable to get container-level tracing
> results as well, e.g. syscall count, function count, I/O
> activity, etc.
> 
> This patch implements a new helper, bpf_get_current_cgroup_id(),
> which will return cgroup id based on the cgroup within which
> the current task is running.
> 
> Patch #1 implements the new helper in the kernel.
> Patch #2 syncs the uapi bpf.h header and helper between tools
> and kernel.
> Patch #3 shows how to get the same cgroup id in user space,
> so a filter or policy could be configgured in the bpf program
> based on current task cgroup.
> 
> Changelog:
>   v1 -> v2:
>      . rebase to resolve merge conflict with latest bpf-next.

Applied, Thanks.

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