Multiple threads, such as with "perf top", may race to initialize a
file system path like hugetlbfs. The racy initialization of the path
leads to at least memory leaks. To avoid this initialize each fs for
reading the mount point path with pthread_once.
Mounting the file system may also be racy, so introduce a mutex over
the function. This does mean that the path is being accessed with and
without a mutex, which is inherently racy but hopefully benign,
especially as there are fewer callers to fs__mount.
Remove the fs__entries by directly using global variables, this was
done as no argument like the index can be passed to the init once
routine.
Issue found and tested with "perf top" and address sanitizer.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230609224004.180988-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing.
But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:
Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs
file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing.
For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system,
the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at:
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
Many comments and Kconfig help messages in the tracing code still refer
to this older debugfs path, so let's update them to avoid confusion.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230215223350.2658616-2-zwisler@google.com
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
perf record __cmd_record() does not poll evlist pollfds. Instead it polls
thread_data[0].pollfd. That happens whether or not threads are being used.
perf record duplicates evlist mmap pollfds as needed for separate threads.
The non-perf-event represented by evlist->ctl_fd has to handled separately,
which is done explicitly, duplicating it into the thread_data[0] pollfds.
That approach neglects any other non-perf-event file descriptors. Currently
there is also done_fd which needs the same handling.
Add a new generalized approach.
Add fdarray_flag__non_perf_event to identify the file descriptors that
need the special handling. For those cases, also keep a mapping of the
evlist pollfd index and thread pollfd index, so that the evlist revents
can be updated.
Although this patch adds the new handling, it does not take it into use.
There is no functional change, but it is the precursor to a fix, so is
marked as a fix.
Fixes: 415ccb58f6 ("perf record: Introduce thread specific data array")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220824072814.16422-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Add new environment variables, USERCFLAGS and USERLDFLAGS to allow
additional flags to be passed to user-space programs.
- Fix missing fflush() bugs in Kconfig and fixdep
- Fix a minor bug in the comment format of the .config file
- Make kallsyms ignore llvm's local labels, .L*
- Fix UAPI compile-test for cross-compiling with Clang
- Extend the LLVM= syntax to support LLVM=<suffix> form for using a
particular version of LLVm, and LLVM=<prefix> form for using custom
LLVM in a particular directory path.
- Clean up Makefiles
* tag 'kbuild-v5.18-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kbuild: Make $(LLVM) more flexible
kbuild: add --target to correctly cross-compile UAPI headers with Clang
fixdep: use fflush() and ferror() to ensure successful write to files
arch: syscalls: simplify uapi/kapi directory creation
usr/include: replace extra-y with always-y
certs: simplify empty certs creation in certs/Makefile
certs: include certs/signing_key.x509 unconditionally
kallsyms: ignore all local labels prefixed by '.L'
kconfig: fix missing '# end of' for empty menu
kconfig: add fflush() before ferror() check
kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B)
kbuild: Add environment variables for userprogs flags
kbuild: unify cmd_copy and cmd_shipped
$(or ...) is available since GNU Make 3.81, and useful to shorten the
code in some places.
Covert as follows:
$(if A,A,B) --> $(or A,B)
This patch also converts:
$(if A, A, B) --> $(or A, B)
Strictly speaking, the latter is not an equivalent conversion because
GNU Make keeps spaces after commas; if A is not empty, $(if A, A, B)
expands to " A", while $(or A, B) expands to "A".
Anyway, preceding spaces are not significant in the code hunks I touched.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
'perf record' will call kallsyms__parse 4 times during startup and
process megabytes of data. This changes kallsyms__parse to use the io
library rather than fgets to improve performance of the user code by
over 8%.
Before:
Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark:
Average kallsyms__parse took: 103.988 ms (+- 0.203 ms)
After:
Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark:
Average kallsyms__parse took: 95.571 ms (+- 0.006 ms)
For a workload like:
$ perf record /bin/true
Run under 'perf record -e cycles:u -g' the time goes from:
Before
30.10% 1.67% perf perf [.] kallsyms__parse
After
25.55% 20.04% perf perf [.] kallsyms__parse
So a little under 5% of the start-up time is removed. A lot of what
remains is on the kernel side, but caching kallsyms within perf would at
least impact memory footprint.
Committer notes:
The internal/kallsyms-parse bench is run using:
[root@five ~]# perf bench internals kallsyms-parse
# Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark:
Average kallsyms__parse took: 80.381 ms (+- 0.115 ms)
[root@five ~]#
And this pre-existing test uses these routines to parse kallsyms and
then compare with the info obtained from the matching ELF symtab:
[root@five ~]# perf test vmlinux
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok
[root@five ~]#
Also we can't remove hex2u64() in this patch as this breaks the build:
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/build/perf/perf-in.o: in function `modules__parse':
/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/util/symbol.c:607: undefined reference to `hex2u64'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/util/symbol.c:607: undefined reference to `hex2u64'
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/build/perf/perf-in.o: in function `dso__load_perf_map':
/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/util/symbol.c:1477: undefined reference to `hex2u64'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/util/symbol.c:1483: undefined reference to `hex2u64'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Leave it there, move it in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200501221315.54715-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The xxx_mountpoint() interface provided by fs.c finds mount points for
common pseudo filesystems. The first time xxx_mountpoint() is invoked,
it scans the mount table (/proc/mounts) looking for a match. If found,
it is cached. The price to scan /proc/mounts is paid once if the mount
is found.
When the mount point is not found, subsequent calls to xxx_mountpoint()
scan /proc/mounts over and over again. There is no caching.
This causes a scaling issue in perf record with hugeltbfs__mountpoint().
The function is called for each process found in
synthesize__mmap_events(). If the machine has thousands of processes
and if the /proc/mounts has many entries this could cause major overhead
in perf record. We have observed multi-second slowdowns on some
configurations.
As an example on a laptop:
Before:
$ sudo umount /dev/hugepages
$ strace -e trace=openat -o /tmp/tt perf record -a ls
$ fgrep mounts /tmp/tt
285
After:
$ sudo umount /dev/hugepages
$ strace -e trace=openat -o /tmp/tt perf record -a ls
$ fgrep mounts /tmp/tt
1
One could argue that the non-caching in case the moint point is not
found is intentional. That way subsequent calls may discover a moint
point if the sysadmin mounts the filesystem. But the same argument could
be made against caching the mount point. It could be unmounted causing
errors. It all depends on the intent of the interface. This patch
assumes it is expected to scan /proc/mounts once. The patch documents
the caching behavior in the fs.h header file.
An alternative would be to just fix perf record. But it would solve the
problem with hugetlbs__mountpoint() but there could be similar issues
(possibly down the line) with other xxx_mountpoint() calls in perf or
other tools.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.z@gmail.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200402154357.107873-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
