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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:39:51 -0800
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf trace: Collect sys_nanosleep first argument
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 1:30 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> That is a 'struct timespec' passed from userspace to the kernel as we
> can see with a system wide syscall tracing:
>
> root@...ber:~# perf trace -e nanosleep
> 0.000 (10.102 ms): podman/9150 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 38.924 (10.077 ms): podman/2195174 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 100.177 (10.107 ms): podman/9150 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 139.171 (10.063 ms): podman/2195174 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 200.603 (10.105 ms): podman/9150 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 239.399 (10.064 ms): podman/2195174 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 300.994 (10.096 ms): podman/9150 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 339.584 (10.067 ms): podman/2195174 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 401.335 (10.057 ms): podman/9150 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 439.758 (10.166 ms): podman/2195174 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 501.814 (10.110 ms): podman/9150 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 539.983 (10.227 ms): podman/2195174 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 602.284 (10.199 ms): podman/9150 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 640.208 (10.105 ms): podman/2195174 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 702.662 (10.163 ms): podman/9150 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 740.440 (10.107 ms): podman/2195174 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> 802.993 (10.159 ms): podman/9150 nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }) = 0
> ^Croot@...ber:~# strace -p 9150 -e nanosleep
>
> If we then use the ptrace method to look at that podman process:
>
> root@...ber:~# strace -p 9150 -e nanosleep
> strace: Process 9150 attached
> nanosleep({tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=10000000}, NULL) = 0
> nanosleep({tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=10000000}, NULL) = 0
> nanosleep({tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=10000000}, NULL) = 0
> nanosleep({tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=10000000}, NULL) = 0
> nanosleep({tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=10000000}, NULL) = 0
> nanosleep({tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=10000000}, NULL) = 0
> nanosleep({tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=10000000}, NULL) = 0
> ^Cstrace: Process 9150 detached
> root@...ber:~#
>
> With some changes we can get something closer to the strace output,
> still in system wide mode:
>
> root@...ber:~# perf config trace.show_arg_names=false
> root@...ber:~# perf config trace.show_duration=false
> root@...ber:~# perf config trace.show_timestamp=false
> root@...ber:~# perf config trace.show_zeros=true
> root@...ber:~# perf config trace.args_alignment=0
> root@...ber:~# perf trace -e nanosleep --max-events=10
> podman/2195174 nanosleep({ .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }, NULL) = 0
> podman/9150 nanosleep({ .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }, NULL) = 0
> podman/2195174 nanosleep({ .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }, NULL) = 0
> podman/9150 nanosleep({ .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }, NULL) = 0
> podman/2195174 nanosleep({ .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }, NULL) = 0
> podman/9150 nanosleep({ .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }, NULL) = 0
> podman/2195174 nanosleep({ .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }, NULL) = 0
> podman/9150 nanosleep({ .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }, NULL) = 0
> podman/2195174 nanosleep({ .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }, NULL) = 0
> podman/9150 nanosleep({ .tv_sec: 0, .tv_nsec: 10000000 }, NULL) = 0
> root@...ber:~#
> root@...ber:~# perf config
> trace.show_arg_names=false
> trace.show_duration=false
> trace.show_timestamp=false
> trace.show_zeros=true
> trace.args_alignment=0
> root@...ber:~# cat ~/.perfconfig
> # this file is auto-generated.
> [trace]
> show_arg_names = false
> show_duration = false
> show_timestamp = false
> show_zeros = true
> args_alignment = 0
> root@...ber:~#
>
> This will not get reused by any other syscall as nanosleep is the only
> one to have as its first argument a 'struct timespec" pointer argument
> passed from userspace to the kernel:
>
> root@...ber:~# grep timespec /sys/kernel/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_*/format | grep offset:16
> /sys/kernel/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_nanosleep/format: field:struct __kernel_timespec * rqtp; offset:16; size:8; signed:0;
> root@...ber:~#
>
> BTF based pretty printing will simplify all this, but then lets just get
> the low hanging fruits first.
>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Thanks,
Ian
> ---
> tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 2 ++
> .../bpf_skel/augmented_raw_syscalls.bpf.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
> index 109b8e64fe69ae32..6abe280dc38f1921 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
> @@ -1048,6 +1048,8 @@ static const struct syscall_fmt syscall_fmts[] = {
> .arg = { [3] = { .scnprintf = SCA_MREMAP_FLAGS, /* flags */ }, }, },
> { .name = "name_to_handle_at",
> .arg = { [0] = { .scnprintf = SCA_FDAT, /* dfd */ }, }, },
> + { .name = "nanosleep",
> + .arg = { [0] = { .scnprintf = SCA_TIMESPEC, /* req */ }, }, },
> { .name = "newfstatat",
> .arg = { [0] = { .scnprintf = SCA_FDAT, /* dfd */ }, }, },
> { .name = "open",
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/augmented_raw_syscalls.bpf.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/augmented_raw_syscalls.bpf.c
> index 52c270330ae0d2f3..baecffbece14fb68 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/augmented_raw_syscalls.bpf.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/augmented_raw_syscalls.bpf.c
> @@ -354,6 +354,27 @@ int sys_enter_clock_nanosleep(struct syscall_enter_args *args)
> return 1; /* Failure: don't filter */
> }
>
> +SEC("tp/syscalls/sys_enter_nanosleep")
> +int sys_enter_nanosleep(struct syscall_enter_args *args)
> +{
> + struct augmented_args_payload *augmented_args = augmented_args_payload();
> + const void *req_arg = (const void *)args->args[0];
> + unsigned int len = sizeof(augmented_args->args);
> + __u32 size = sizeof(struct timespec64);
> +
> + if (augmented_args == NULL)
> + goto failure;
> +
> + if (size > sizeof(augmented_args->__data))
> + goto failure;
> +
> + bpf_probe_read_user(&augmented_args->__data, size, req_arg);
> +
> + return augmented__output(args, augmented_args, len + size);
> +failure:
> + return 1; /* Failure: don't filter */
> +}
> +
> static pid_t getpid(void)
> {
> return bpf_get_current_pid_tgid();
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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