On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 15:38 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > Hmm, indeed. One thing we can do about that is move perf into the
> > cgroup, create the counter (disabled) using self to identify the cgroup,
> > move perf back to where it came from, and enable the counter.
> >
> Yes, that's another possibility. I wonder if there are any non-obvious
> difficulties with this approach.
Yes, there is, but I think we can fix it. The problem with moving perf
itself around is that perf is not a fully dormant process and can thus
interact with the cgroup state.
If we were to fork a child that's simply sitting idle in waitpid() (or
any other blocking syscall) we can move that around cgroup without
affecting the cgroup itself.
> Is it as simple as:
> FILE *fp;
> fp = fopen("/dev/cgroup/test/tasks", "w");
> fprintf(fp, "%d", gettid());
> close(fp):
Except I've never in my life mounted a cgroup filesystem in /dev/ :-)
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