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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:08:25 -0800
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To: Howard Chu <howardchu95@...il.com>
Cc: acme@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, namhyung@...nel.org,
mingo@...hat.com, jolsa@...nel.org, adrian.hunter@...el.com,
kan.liang@...ux.intel.com, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] perf record --off-cpu: Dump off-cpu samples directly
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 4:28 PM Howard Chu <howardchu95@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Changes in v8:
> - Make this series bisectable
> - Rename off_cpu_thresh to off_cpu_thresh_us and offcpu_thresh (in BPF)
> to offcpu_thresh_ns for clarity.
> - Add commit messages to 'perf evsel: Expose evsel__is_offcpu_event()
> for future use' commit
> - Correct spelling mistakes in the commit message (s/is should be/should be/)
> - Add kernel-doc comments to off_cpu_dump(), and comments to the empty
> if block
> - Add some comments to off-cpu test
> - Delete an unused variable 'timestamp' in off_cpu_dump()
I spotted a few issues in v7, but v8 looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Thanks,
Ian
> Changes in v7:
> - Make off-cpu event system-wide
> - Use strtoull instead of strtoul
> - Delete unused variable such as sample_id, and sample_type
> - Use i as index to update BPF perf_event map
> - MAX_OFFCPU_LEN 128 is too big, make it smaller.
> - Delete some bound check as it's always guaranteed
> - Do not set ip_pos in BPF
> - Add a new field for storing stack traces in the tstamp map
> - Dump the off-cpu sample directly or save it in the off_cpu map, not both
> - Delete the sample_type_off_cpu check
> - Use __set_off_cpu_sample() to parse samples instead of a two-pass parsing
>
> Changes in v6:
> - Make patches bisectable
>
> Changes in v5:
> - Delete unnecessary copy in BPF program
> - Remove sample_embed from perf header, hard code off-cpu stuff instead
> - Move evsel__is_offcpu_event() to evsel.h
> - Minor changes to the test
> - Edit some comments
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Minimize the size of data output by perf_event_output()
> - Keep only one off-cpu event
> - Change off-cpu threshold's unit to microseconds
> - Set a default off-cpu threshold
> - Print the correct error message for the field 'embed' in perf data header
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Add off-cpu-thresh argument
> - Process direct off-cpu samples in post
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Remove unnecessary comments.
> - Rename function off_cpu_change_type to off_cpu_prepare_parse
>
> v1:
>
> As mentioned in: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207323
>
> Currently, off-cpu samples are dumped when perf record is exiting. This
> results in off-cpu samples being after the regular samples. This patch
> series makes possible dumping off-cpu samples on-the-fly, directly into
> perf ring buffer. And it dispatches those samples to the correct format
> for perf.data consumers.
>
> Before:
> ```
> migration/0 21 [000] 27981.041319: 2944637851 cycles:P: ffffffff90d2e8aa record_times+0xa ([kernel.kallsyms])
> perf 770116 [001] 27981.041375: 1 cycles:P: ffffffff90ee4960 event_function+0xf0 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> perf 770116 [001] 27981.041377: 1 cycles:P: ffffffff90c184b1 intel_bts_enable_local+0x31 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> perf 770116 [001] 27981.041379: 51611 cycles:P: ffffffff91a160b0 native_sched_clock+0x30 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> migration/1 26 [001] 27981.041400: 4227682775 cycles:P: ffffffff90d06a74 wakeup_preempt+0x44 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> migration/2 32 [002] 27981.041477: 4159401534 cycles:P: ffffffff90d11993 update_load_avg+0x63 ([kernel.kallsyms])
>
> sshd 708098 [000] 18446744069.414584: 286392 offcpu-time:
> 79a864f1c8bb ppoll+0x4b (/usr/lib/libc.so.6)
> 585690935cca [unknown] (/usr/bin/sshd)
> ```
>
> After:
> ```
> perf 774767 [003] 28178.033444: 497 cycles:P: ffffffff91a160c3 native_sched_clock+0x43 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> perf 774767 [003] 28178.033445: 399440 cycles:P: ffffffff91c01f8d nmi_restore+0x25 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> swapper 0 [001] 28178.036639: 376650973 cycles:P: ffffffff91a1ae99 intel_idle+0x59 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> swapper 0 [003] 28178.182921: 348779378 cycles:P: ffffffff91a1ae99 intel_idle+0x59 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> blueman-tray 1355 [000] 28178.627906: 100184571 offcpu-time:
> 7528eef1c39d __poll+0x4d (/usr/lib/libc.so.6)
> 7528edf7d8fd [unknown] (/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
> 7528edf1af95 g_main_context_iteration+0x35 (/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
> 7528eda4ab86 g_application_run+0x1f6 (/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
> 7528ee6aa596 [unknown] (/usr/lib/libffi.so.8.1.4)
> 7fff24e862d8 [unknown] ([unknown])
>
>
> blueman-tray 1355 [000] 28178.728137: 100187539 offcpu-time:
> 7528eef1c39d __poll+0x4d (/usr/lib/libc.so.6)
> 7528edf7d8fd [unknown] (/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
> 7528edf1af95 g_main_context_iteration+0x35 (/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
> 7528eda4ab86 g_application_run+0x1f6 (/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
> 7528ee6aa596 [unknown] (/usr/lib/libffi.so.8.1.4)
> 7fff24e862d8 [unknown] ([unknown])
>
>
> swapper 0 [000] 28178.463253: 195945410 cycles:P: ffffffff91a1ae99 intel_idle+0x59 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> dbus-broker 412 [002] 28178.464855: 376737008 cycles:P: ffffffff91c000a0 entry_SYSCALL_64+0x20 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> ```
>
> Howard Chu (10):
> perf record --off-cpu: Add --off-cpu-thresh option
> perf evsel: Expose evsel__is_offcpu_event() for future use
> perf record --off-cpu: Parse off-cpu event
> perf record --off-cpu: Preparation of off-cpu BPF program
> perf record --off-cpu: Dump off-cpu samples in BPF
> perf evsel: Assemble offcpu samples
> perf record --off-cpu: Disable perf_event's callchain collection
> perf script: Display off-cpu samples correctly
> perf record --off-cpu: Dump the remaining samples in BPF's stack trace
> map
> perf test: Add direct off-cpu test
>
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 26 ++++++
> tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 1 +
> tools/perf/tests/shell/record_offcpu.sh | 35 ++++++-
> tools/perf/tests/tests.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/tests/workloads/Build | 1 +
> tools/perf/tests/workloads/offcpu.c | 16 ++++
> tools/perf/util/bpf_off_cpu.c | 117 ++++++++++++++----------
> tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/off_cpu.bpf.c | 97 +++++++++++++++++++-
> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 34 ++++++-
> tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 2 +
> tools/perf/util/off_cpu.h | 3 +-
> tools/perf/util/record.h | 1 +
> 13 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/workloads/offcpu.c
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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