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Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:13:25 +0900
From:   Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:     Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@...b.com>
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, kernel-team@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/14] perf report: cache srclines for callchain nodes

Hi Milian,

On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 11:24:43PM +0200, Milian Wolff wrote:
> On one hand this ensures that the memory is properly freed when
> the DSO gets freed. On the other hand this significantly speeds up
> the processing of the callchain nodes when lots of srclines are
> requested. For one of my data files e.g.:
> 
> Before:
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'perf report -s srcline -g srcline --stdio':
> 
>       52496.495043      task-clock (msec)         #    0.999 CPUs utilized
>                634      context-switches          #    0.012 K/sec
>                  2      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
>            191,561      page-faults               #    0.004 M/sec
>    165,074,498,235      cycles                    #    3.144 GHz
>    334,170,832,408      instructions              #    2.02  insn per cycle
>     90,220,029,745      branches                  # 1718.591 M/sec
>        654,525,177      branch-misses             #    0.73% of all branches
> 
>       52.533273822 seconds time elapsedProcessed 236605 events and lost 40 chunks!
> 
> After:
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'perf report -s srcline -g srcline --stdio':
> 
>       22606.323706      task-clock (msec)         #    1.000 CPUs utilized
>                 31      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec
>                  0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
>            185,471      page-faults               #    0.008 M/sec
>     71,188,113,681      cycles                    #    3.149 GHz
>    133,204,943,083      instructions              #    1.87  insn per cycle
>     34,886,384,979      branches                  # 1543.214 M/sec
>        278,214,495      branch-misses             #    0.80% of all branches
> 
>       22.609857253 seconds time elapsed
> 
> Note that the difference is only this large when `--inline` is not
> passed. In such situations, we would use the inliner cache and
> thus do not run this code path that often.
> 
> I think that this cache should actually be used in other places, too.
> When looking at the valgrind leak report for perf report, we see tons
> of srclines being leaked, most notably from calls to
> hist_entry__get_srcline. The problem is that get_srcline has many
> different formatting options (show_sym, show_addr, potentially even
> unwind_inlines when calling __get_srcline directly). As such, the
> srcline cannot easily be cached for all calls, or we'd have to add
> caches for all formatting combinations (6 so far). An alternative
> would be to remove the formatting options and handle that on a
> different level - i.e. print the sym/addr on demand wherever we
> actually output something. And the unwind_inlines could be moved into
> a separate function that does not return the srcline.

Agreed.  Also I guess no need to unwind anymore to get a srcfile for
an entry with your change.

Thanks,
Namhyung


> 
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@...b.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/dso.c     |  1 +
>  tools/perf/util/dso.h     |  1 +
>  tools/perf/util/machine.c | 17 +++++++++---
>  tools/perf/util/srcline.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/srcline.h |  7 +++++
>  5 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.c b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
> index 72e6e390fd26..8c7f2862cff2 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/dso.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
> @@ -1235,6 +1235,7 @@ void dso__delete(struct dso *dso)
>  	for (i = 0; i < MAP__NR_TYPES; ++i)
>  		symbols__delete(&dso->symbols[i]);
>  	inlines__tree_delete(&dso->inlined_nodes);
> +	srcline__tree_delete(&dso->srclines);
>  
>  	if (dso->short_name_allocated) {
>  		zfree((char **)&dso->short_name);
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.h b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
> index 7d1e2b3c1f10..ac3a65a30ff2 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/dso.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
> @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ struct dso {
>  	struct rb_root	 symbols[MAP__NR_TYPES];
>  	struct rb_root	 symbol_names[MAP__NR_TYPES];
>  	struct rb_root	 inlined_nodes;
> +	struct rb_root	 srclines;
>  	struct {
>  		u64		addr;
>  		struct symbol	*symbol;
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> index 479c42450d6a..c5ee6ba2b9ae 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> @@ -1675,11 +1675,22 @@ struct mem_info *sample__resolve_mem(struct perf_sample *sample,
>  
>  static char *callchain_srcline(struct map *map, struct symbol *sym, u64 ip)
>  {
> +	char *srcline = NULL;
> +
>  	if (!map || callchain_param.key == CCKEY_FUNCTION)
> -		return NULL;
> +		return srcline;
> +
> +	srcline = srcline__tree_find(&map->dso->srclines, ip);
> +	if (!srcline) {
> +		bool show_sym = false;
> +		bool show_addr = callchain_param.key == CCKEY_ADDRESS;
> +
> +		srcline = get_srcline(map->dso, map__rip_2objdump(map, ip),
> +				      sym, show_sym, show_addr);
> +		srcline__tree_insert(&map->dso->srclines, ip, srcline);
> +	}
>  
> -	return get_srcline(map->dso, map__rip_2objdump(map, ip),
> -			   sym, false, callchain_param.key == CCKEY_ADDRESS);
> +	return srcline;
>  }
>  
>  static int add_callchain_ip(struct thread *thread,
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/srcline.c b/tools/perf/util/srcline.c
> index 01b4d5ee51fd..0c5ee741c515 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/srcline.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/srcline.c
> @@ -531,6 +531,72 @@ char *get_srcline(struct dso *dso, u64 addr, struct symbol *sym,
>  	return __get_srcline(dso, addr, sym, show_sym, show_addr, false);
>  }
>  
> +struct srcline_node {
> +	u64			addr;
> +	char			*srcline;
> +	struct rb_node		rb_node;
> +};
> +
> +void srcline__tree_insert(struct rb_root *tree, u64 addr, char *srcline)
> +{
> +	struct rb_node **p = &tree->rb_node;
> +	struct rb_node *parent = NULL;
> +	struct srcline_node *i, *node;
> +
> +	node = zalloc(sizeof(struct srcline_node));
> +	if (!node) {
> +		perror("not enough memory for the srcline node");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	node->addr = addr;
> +	node->srcline = srcline;
> +
> +	while (*p != NULL) {
> +		parent = *p;
> +		i = rb_entry(parent, struct srcline_node, rb_node);
> +		if (addr < i->addr)
> +			p = &(*p)->rb_left;
> +		else
> +			p = &(*p)->rb_right;
> +	}
> +	rb_link_node(&node->rb_node, parent, p);
> +	rb_insert_color(&node->rb_node, tree);
> +}
> +
> +char *srcline__tree_find(struct rb_root *tree, u64 addr)
> +{
> +	struct rb_node *n = tree->rb_node;
> +
> +	while (n) {
> +		struct srcline_node *i = rb_entry(n, struct srcline_node,
> +						  rb_node);
> +
> +		if (addr < i->addr)
> +			n = n->rb_left;
> +		else if (addr > i->addr)
> +			n = n->rb_right;
> +		else
> +			return i->srcline;
> +	}
> +
> +	return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +void srcline__tree_delete(struct rb_root *tree)
> +{
> +	struct srcline_node *pos;
> +	struct rb_node *next = rb_first(tree);
> +
> +	while (next) {
> +		pos = rb_entry(next, struct srcline_node, rb_node);
> +		next = rb_next(&pos->rb_node);
> +		rb_erase(&pos->rb_node, tree);
> +		free_srcline(pos->srcline);
> +		zfree(&pos);
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  struct inline_node *dso__parse_addr_inlines(struct dso *dso, u64 addr,
>  					    struct symbol *sym)
>  {
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/srcline.h b/tools/perf/util/srcline.h
> index 0d2aca92e8c7..187a71082cb8 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/srcline.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/srcline.h
> @@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ char *__get_srcline(struct dso *dso, u64 addr, struct symbol *sym,
>  		  bool show_sym, bool show_addr, bool unwind_inlines);
>  void free_srcline(char *srcline);
>  
> +// insert the srcline into the DSO, which will take ownership
> +void srcline__tree_insert(struct rb_root *tree, u64 addr, char *srcline);
> +// find previously inserted srcline
> +char *srcline__tree_find(struct rb_root *tree, u64 addr);
> +// delete all srclines within the tree
> +void srcline__tree_delete(struct rb_root *tree);
> +
>  #define SRCLINE_UNKNOWN  ((char *) "??:0")
>  
>  struct inline_list {
> -- 
> 2.13.3
> 

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