linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RFC] Adding information of counts processes acquired how many spinlocks to schedstat

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Date:	Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:21:24 +0900 (JST)
From:	Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp>
To:	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, paulus@...ba.org, fweisbec@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Adding information of counts processes acquired
 how many spinlocks to schedstat

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Adding information of counts processes acquired how many spinlocks to schedstat
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:31:39 +0200

> 
> * Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I wrote a test patch which add information of counts processes 
> > acquired how many spinlocks to schedstat. After applied this 
> > patch, /proc/<PID>/sched will change like this,
> > 
> > init (1, #threads: 1)
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > se.exec_start                      :        482130.851458
> > se.vruntime                        :         26883.107980
> > se.sum_exec_runtime                :          2316.651816
> > se.avg_overlap                     :             0.480053
> > se.avg_wakeup                      :            14.999993
> > ....
> > se.nr_wakeups_passive              :                    1
> > se.nr_wakeups_idle                 :                    0
> > se.nr_acquired_spinlock            :                74483
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Looks potentially useful - but it would be nice and go one step 
> further and add lock acquire stats as a software-counter.
> 
> Perfcounters is a feature of the latest upstream kernel, there's a 
> (still very small) Wiki page about it at:
> 
>    http://perf.wiki.kernel.org
> 

Thanks for your information.
I've never heard about this. This is a useful software for me.

> Now, it would be nice to have a lock-acquire software-counter as 
> well, which would output things like:
> 
>   $ perf stat -a -e lock-acquires sleep 1
> 
>   Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
> 
>           294387  lock-acquires
> 
>      1.022318527  seconds time elapsed
> 
> Furthermore, beyond plain counts, doing this would also allow the 
> profiling of lock acquire places: perf record -e lock-acquires and 
> perf report would work fine.
> 
> It is really easy to add a new sw counter, check how it is done for 
> the pagefault counter(s), see the uses of PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS 
> in the following files:
> 
>   $ git grep -l PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS
> 
>   arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
>   arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>   include/linux/perf_counter.h
>   kernel/perf_counter.c
>   tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
>   tools/perf/design.txt
> 
> Would you be interested in having a look at this?

Of course, I want to do this!
If I got progress, I'll send a patch to you.
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