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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:04:10 +0200
From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf session: Add option to copy events when queueing
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 09:07:38PM +0400, Alexander Yarygin wrote:
> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
>
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/ordered-events.c | 12 +++++++++---
> tools/perf/util/ordered-events.h | 2 +-
> tools/perf/util/session.c | 12 +++++++++---
> tools/perf/util/session.h | 1 +
> 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.c b/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.c
> index 706ce1a..5b51de5 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.c
> @@ -140,11 +140,15 @@ static int __ordered_events__flush(struct perf_session *s,
> break;
>
> ret = perf_evlist__parse_sample(s->evlist, iter->event, &sample);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> pr_err("Can't parse sample, err = %d\n", ret);
> - else {
> + if (s->copy_on_queue)
> + free(iter->event);
> + } else {
> ret = perf_session__deliver_event(s, iter->event, &sample, tool,
> iter->file_offset);
> + if (s->copy_on_queue)
> + free(iter->event);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
> }
> @@ -233,13 +237,15 @@ void ordered_events__init(struct ordered_events *oe)
> oe->cur_alloc_size = 0;
> }
>
> -void ordered_events__free(struct ordered_events *oe)
> +void ordered_events__free(struct perf_session *s, struct ordered_events *oe)
> {
> while (!list_empty(&oe->to_free)) {
> struct ordered_event *event;
>
> event = list_entry(oe->to_free.next, struct ordered_event, list);
> list_del(&event->list);
> + if (s->copy_on_queue)
> + free(event->event);
> free(event);
> }
> }
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.h b/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.h
> index 3b2f205..a156b0e 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.h
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ void ordered_events__delete(struct ordered_events *oe, struct ordered_event *eve
> int ordered_events__flush(struct perf_session *s, struct perf_tool *tool,
> enum oe_flush how);
> void ordered_events__init(struct ordered_events *oe);
> -void ordered_events__free(struct ordered_events *oe);
> +void ordered_events__free(struct perf_session *s, struct ordered_events *oe);
>
> static inline
> void ordered_events__set_alloc_size(struct ordered_events *oe, u64 size)
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
> index 6d2d50d..40d3aec 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
> @@ -542,7 +542,13 @@ int perf_session_queue_event(struct perf_session *s, union perf_event *event,
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> new->file_offset = file_offset;
> - new->event = event;
> +
> + if (s->copy_on_queue) {
> + new->event = malloc(event->header.size);
> + memcpy(new->event, event, event->header.size);
we have memdup, and you need to check for allocation failure
hum.. how about allocation limits?
Now have report.queue-size to keep track and limit the ordered_events
memory size. I think we should add this allocation size under this
limit as well.
> + } else
> + new->event = event;
> +
also the copy_on_queue flag and the logic above feels more like
it belongs to 'ordered_events' object to me
jirka
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