The following commit:864c2357ca("perf/core: Do not set cpuctx->cgrp for unscheduled cgroups") made list_update_cgroup_event() skip setting cpuctx->cgrp if no cgroup event targets %current's cgroup. This breaks perf_event's hierarchical support because events which target one of the ancestors get ignored. Fix it by using cgroup_is_descendant() test instead of equality. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+ Fixes:864c2357ca("perf/core: Do not set cpuctx->cgrp for unscheduled cgroups") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171028164237.GA972780@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>