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authorAlexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-10-03 18:40:11 +0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2014-10-15 17:39:03 -0300
commit54bf53b1cb9150b894213a705c562d52388376ef (patch)
treeaa92017a60b2257c88d6b2da41a7cb562f341439 /tools
parent96355f2cfb61bb057df9bc0712cd7323dba28080 (diff)
perf session: Add option to copy events when queueing
When processing events the session code has an ordered samples queue which is used to time-sort events coming in across multiple mmaps. At a later point in time samples on the queue are flushed up to some timestamp at which point the event is actually processed. When analyzing events live (ie., record/analysis path in the same command) there is a race that leads to corrupted events and parse errors which cause perf to terminate. The problem is that when the event is placed in the ordered samples queue it is only a reference to the event which is really sitting in the mmap buffer. Even though the event is queued for later processing the mmap tail pointer is updated which indicates to the kernel that the event has been processed. The race is flushing the event from the queue before it gets overwritten by some other event. For commands trying to process events live (versus just writing to a file) and processing a high rate of events this leads to parse failures and perf terminates. Examples hitting this problem are 'perf kvm stat live', especially with nested VMs which generate 100,000+ traces per second, and a command processing scheduling events with a high rate of context switching -- e.g., running 'perf bench sched pipe'. This patch offers live commands an option to copy the event when it is placed in the ordered samples queue. Based on a patch from David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412347212-28237-2-git-send-email-yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/ordered-events.c49
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/ordered-events.h10
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/session.c5
3 files changed, 56 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.c b/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.c
index 706ce1a66169..fd4be94125fb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
#include "ordered-events.h"
#include "evlist.h"
#include "session.h"
@@ -57,11 +58,45 @@ static void queue_event(struct ordered_events *oe, struct ordered_event *new)
}
}
+static union perf_event *__dup_event(struct ordered_events *oe,
+ union perf_event *event)
+{
+ union perf_event *new_event = NULL;
+
+ if (oe->cur_alloc_size < oe->max_alloc_size) {
+ new_event = memdup(event, event->header.size);
+ if (new_event)
+ oe->cur_alloc_size += event->header.size;
+ }
+
+ return new_event;
+}
+
+static union perf_event *dup_event(struct ordered_events *oe,
+ union perf_event *event)
+{
+ return oe->copy_on_queue ? __dup_event(oe, event) : event;
+}
+
+static void free_dup_event(struct ordered_events *oe, union perf_event *event)
+{
+ if (oe->copy_on_queue) {
+ oe->cur_alloc_size -= event->header.size;
+ free(event);
+ }
+}
+
#define MAX_SAMPLE_BUFFER (64 * 1024 / sizeof(struct ordered_event))
-static struct ordered_event *alloc_event(struct ordered_events *oe)
+static struct ordered_event *alloc_event(struct ordered_events *oe,
+ union perf_event *event)
{
struct list_head *cache = &oe->cache;
struct ordered_event *new = NULL;
+ union perf_event *new_event;
+
+ new_event = dup_event(oe, event);
+ if (!new_event)
+ return NULL;
if (!list_empty(cache)) {
new = list_entry(cache->next, struct ordered_event, list);
@@ -74,8 +109,10 @@ static struct ordered_event *alloc_event(struct ordered_events *oe)
size_t size = MAX_SAMPLE_BUFFER * sizeof(*new);
oe->buffer = malloc(size);
- if (!oe->buffer)
+ if (!oe->buffer) {
+ free_dup_event(oe, new_event);
return NULL;
+ }
pr("alloc size %" PRIu64 "B (+%zu), max %" PRIu64 "B\n",
oe->cur_alloc_size, size, oe->max_alloc_size);
@@ -90,15 +127,17 @@ static struct ordered_event *alloc_event(struct ordered_events *oe)
pr("allocation limit reached %" PRIu64 "B\n", oe->max_alloc_size);
}
+ new->event = new_event;
return new;
}
struct ordered_event *
-ordered_events__new(struct ordered_events *oe, u64 timestamp)
+ordered_events__new(struct ordered_events *oe, u64 timestamp,
+ union perf_event *event)
{
struct ordered_event *new;
- new = alloc_event(oe);
+ new = alloc_event(oe, event);
if (new) {
new->timestamp = timestamp;
queue_event(oe, new);
@@ -111,6 +150,7 @@ void ordered_events__delete(struct ordered_events *oe, struct ordered_event *eve
{
list_move(&event->list, &oe->cache);
oe->nr_events--;
+ free_dup_event(oe, event->event);
}
static int __ordered_events__flush(struct perf_session *s,
@@ -240,6 +280,7 @@ void ordered_events__free(struct ordered_events *oe)
event = list_entry(oe->to_free.next, struct ordered_event, list);
list_del(&event->list);
+ free_dup_event(oe, event->event);
free(event);
}
}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.h b/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.h
index 3b2f20542a01..7b8f9b011f38 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.h
@@ -34,9 +34,11 @@ struct ordered_events {
int buffer_idx;
unsigned int nr_events;
enum oe_flush last_flush_type;
+ bool copy_on_queue;
};
-struct ordered_event *ordered_events__new(struct ordered_events *oe, u64 timestamp);
+struct ordered_event *ordered_events__new(struct ordered_events *oe, u64 timestamp,
+ union perf_event *event);
void ordered_events__delete(struct ordered_events *oe, struct ordered_event *event);
int ordered_events__flush(struct perf_session *s, struct perf_tool *tool,
enum oe_flush how);
@@ -48,4 +50,10 @@ void ordered_events__set_alloc_size(struct ordered_events *oe, u64 size)
{
oe->max_alloc_size = size;
}
+
+static inline
+void ordered_events__set_copy_on_queue(struct ordered_events *oe, bool copy)
+{
+ oe->copy_on_queue = copy;
+}
#endif /* __ORDERED_EVENTS_H */
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 896bac73ea08..6702ac28754b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -532,17 +532,16 @@ int perf_session_queue_event(struct perf_session *s, union perf_event *event,
return -EINVAL;
}
- new = ordered_events__new(oe, timestamp);
+ new = ordered_events__new(oe, timestamp, event);
if (!new) {
ordered_events__flush(s, tool, OE_FLUSH__HALF);
- new = ordered_events__new(oe, timestamp);
+ new = ordered_events__new(oe, timestamp, event);
}
if (!new)
return -ENOMEM;
new->file_offset = file_offset;
- new->event = event;
return 0;
}