perf: Add support for event removal on exec
authorMarco Elver <elver@google.com>
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 10:35:59 +0000 (12:35 +0200)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:32:41 +0000 (16:32 +0200)
commit2e498d0a74e5b88a6689ae1b811f247f91ff188e
tree3a236bd74d671a0ba46923d5bacc9cbf7b46a12d
parent2b26f0aa004995f49f7b6f4100dd0e4c39a9ed5f
perf: Add support for event removal on exec

Adds bit perf_event_attr::remove_on_exec, to support removing an event
from a task on exec.

This option supports the case where an event is supposed to be
process-wide only, and should not propagate beyond exec, to limit
monitoring to the original process image only.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210408103605.1676875-5-elver@google.com
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/core.c