linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 18/43] instrumented.h: add KMSAN support

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Date:   Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:37:26 -0700
From:   Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
To:     youling 257 <youling257@...il.com>
Cc:     Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 18/43] instrumented.h: add KMSAN support

On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 at 23:39, youling 257 <youling257@...il.com> wrote:
>
> PerfTop:    8253 irqs/sec  kernel:75.3%  exact: 100.0% lost: 0/0 drop:
> 0/17899 [4000Hz cycles],  (all, 8 CPUs)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     14.87%  [kernel]              [k] 0xffffffff941d1f37
>      6.71%  [kernel]              [k] 0xffffffff942016cf
>
> what is 0xffffffff941d1f37?

You need to build with debug symbols:
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT=y

Then it'll show function names.

> 2022-10-21 14:16 GMT+08:00, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>:
> > On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 at 22:55, youling 257 <youling257@...il.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> How to use perf tool?
> >
> > The simplest would be to try just "perf top" - and see which kernel
> > functions consume most CPU cycles. I would suggest you compare both
> > kernels, and see if you can spot a function which uses more cycles% in
> > the problematic kernel.
> >