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Date:   Fri, 5 Oct 2018 10:03:20 +0300
From:   Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-team@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/3]: perf util: map data buffer for preserving
 collected data

Hi,
On 05.10.2018 9:23, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 07:01:26PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>>
>> The map->data buffer is used to preserve map->base profiling data 
>> for writing to disk. AIO map->cblock is used to queue corresponding 
>> map->data buffer for asynchronous writing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
>> ---
>> Changes in v9:
>>   - implemented NO_AIO and HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT defines to cover cases of 
>>     libc implementations without Posix AIO API support
>> Changes in v7:
>>   - implemented handling record.aio setting from perfconfig file
>>  Changes in v6:
>>   - adjusted setting of priorities for cblocks;
>>  Changes in v5:
>>   - reshaped layout of data structures;
>>   - implemented --aio option;
>>  Changes in v4:
>>   - converted mmap()/munmap() to malloc()/free() for mmap->data buffer management 
>>  Changes in v2:
>>   - converted zalloc() to calloc() for allocation of mmap_aio array,
>>   - cleared typo and adjusted fallback branch code;
>> ---
>>  tools/perf/Makefile.config |  5 +++++
>>  tools/perf/Makefile.perf   |  7 ++++++-
>>  tools/perf/util/evlist.c   |  4 +++-
>>  tools/perf/util/mmap.c     | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  tools/perf/util/mmap.h     | 11 +++++++++++
>>  5 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
>> index f6d1a03c7523..2e90f4ce9214 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
>> +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
>> @@ -355,6 +355,11 @@ endif # NO_LIBELF
>>  
>>  ifeq ($(feature-glibc), 1)
>>    CFLAGS += -DHAVE_GLIBC_SUPPORT
>> +  ifndef NO_AIO
>> +    ifndef BIONIC
>> +        CFLAGS += -DHAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
>> +    endif
>> +  endif
>>  endif
>>  
>>  ifdef NO_DWARF
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
>> index 92514fb3689f..7becc6a72cf2 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
>> +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
>> @@ -97,8 +97,13 @@ include ../scripts/utilities.mak
>>  # Define LIBCLANGLLVM if you DO want builtin clang and llvm support.
>>  # When selected, pass LLVM_CONFIG=/path/to/llvm-config to `make' if
>>  # llvm-config is not in $PATH.
>> -
>> +#
>>  # Define NO_CORESIGHT if you do not want support for CoreSight trace decoding.
>> +#
>> +# Define NO_AIO if you do not want support of Posix AIO based trace
>> +# streaming for record mode. Currently Posix AIO trace streaming is
>> +# supported only when linking with glibc.
>> +#
>>  
>>  # As per kernel Makefile, avoid funny character set dependencies
>>  unexport LC_ALL
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>> index be440df29615..af2f8c965d7a 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>> @@ -1029,7 +1029,9 @@ int perf_evlist__mmap_ex(struct perf_evlist *evlist, unsigned int pages,
>>  	 * So &mp should not be passed through const pointer.
>>  	 */
>>  	struct mmap_params mp;
>> -
>> +#ifdef HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
>> +	mp.nr_cblocks = 0;
>> +#endif
>>  	if (!evlist->mmap)
>>  		evlist->mmap = perf_evlist__alloc_mmap(evlist, false);
>>  	if (!evlist->mmap)
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/mmap.c b/tools/perf/util/mmap.c
>> index cdb95b3a1213..5b3727b0c7c0 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/mmap.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/mmap.c
>> @@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ void __weak auxtrace_mmap_params__set_idx(struct auxtrace_mmap_params *mp __mayb
>>  
>>  void perf_mmap__munmap(struct perf_mmap *map)
>>  {
>> +#ifdef HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
>> +	if (map->data)
>> +		zfree(&map->data);
>> +#endif
>>  	if (map->base != NULL) {
>>  		munmap(map->base, perf_mmap__mmap_len(map));
>>  		map->base = NULL;
>> @@ -166,6 +170,9 @@ void perf_mmap__munmap(struct perf_mmap *map)
>>  
>>  int perf_mmap__mmap(struct perf_mmap *map, struct mmap_params *mp, int fd, int cpu)
>>  {
>> +#ifdef HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
>> +	int delta_max;
>> +#endif
>>  	/*
>>  	 * The last one will be done at perf_mmap__consume(), so that we
>>  	 * make sure we don't prevent tools from consuming every last event in
>> @@ -190,6 +197,30 @@ int perf_mmap__mmap(struct perf_mmap *map, struct mmap_params *mp, int fd, int c
>>  		map->base = NULL;
>>  		return -1;
>>  	}
>> +#ifdef HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
>> +	map->nr_cblocks = mp->nr_cblocks;
>> +	if (map->nr_cblocks) {
>> +		map->data = malloc(perf_mmap__mmap_len(map));
>> +		if (!map->data) {
>> +			pr_debug2("failed to allocate data buffer, error %d\n",
>> +					errno);
> 
> I guess the error code is not very useful than the message.  But in
> this case it's probably ENOMEM so we can simply omit it.
> 
> 
>> +			return -1;
>> +		}
>> +		/*
>> +		 * Use cblock.aio_fildes value different from -1
>> +		 * to denote started aio write operation on the
>> +		 * cblock so it requires explicit record__aio_sync()
>> +		 * call prior the cblock may be reused again.
>> +		 */
>> +		map->cblock.aio_fildes = -1;
>> +		/*
>> +		 * Allocate cblock with max priority delta to
>> +		 * have faster aio write system calls.
>> +		 */
>> +		delta_max = sysconf(_SC_AIO_PRIO_DELTA_MAX);
>> +		map->cblock.aio_reqprio = delta_max;
>> +	}
>> +#endif
> 
> What about separating this part into a function with the #ifdef.

That's possible e.g. like this:

static int  perf_mmap__aio_mmap(struct perf_mmap *map, struct mmap_params *mp);
static void perf_mmap__aio_munmap(struct perf_mmap *map);

Thanks,
Alexey

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