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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:52:35 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
Howard Chu <howardchu95@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] perf trace: Add --syscall-period option
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 02:21:10PM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> This option is to implement the event sampling for system calls.
> The period is given in msec as it shows the time in msec.
>
> # perf trace -C 0 --syscall-period 100 sleep 1
> ? ( ): fleetspeakd/1828559 ... [continued]: futex()) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
> 0.050 (100.247 ms): gnome-shell/572531 recvmsg(fd: 10<socket:[3355761]>, msg: 0x7ffef8b39d20) = 40
> 100.357 (100.149 ms): pipewire-pulse/572245 read(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7ffc0b9dc8f0, count: 8) = 8
> 200.553 (100.268 ms): NetworkManager/3424 epoll_wait(epfd: 19<anon_inode:[eventpoll]>, events: 0x5607b85bb880, maxevents: 6) = 0
> 300.876 ( ): mon/4932 poll(ufds: 0x7fa392784df0, nfds: 1, timeout_msecs: 100) ...
> 400.901 ( 0.025 ms): TaskCon~ller #/620145 futex(uaddr: 0x7f3fc596fa00, op: WAKE|PRIVATE_FLAG, val: 1) = 0
> 300.876 (100.123 ms): mon/4932 ... [continued]: poll()) = 0 (Timeout)
> 500.901 ( 0.012 ms): evdefer/2/2335122 futex(uaddr: 0x5640baac5198, op: WAKE|PRIVATE_FLAG, val: 1) = 0
> 602.701 ( 0.017 ms): Compositor/1992200 futex(uaddr: 0x7f1a51dfdd40, op: WAKE|PRIVATE_FLAG, val: 1) = 0
> 705.589 ( 0.017 ms): JS Watchdog/947933 futex(uaddr: 0x7f4cac1d4240, op: WAKE|PRIVATE_FLAG, val: 1) = 0
> 812.667 ( 0.027 ms): fix/1985151 futex(uaddr: 0xc0008f7148, op: WAKE|PRIVATE_FLAG, val: 1) = 1
> 912.807 ( 0.017 ms): Xorg/572315 setitimer(value: 0x7ffc375d6ba0) = 0
>
> The timestamp is kept in a per-cpu array and the allowed task is saved
> in a hash map.
Interesting concept, and one that is done just on the BPF part, so I
think we should at least warn a user that is running this on a build
without BPF skels.
Will try it tomorrow,
- Arnaldo
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
> ---
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | 6 ++
> tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 5 ++
> .../bpf_skel/augmented_raw_syscalls.bpf.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++-
> 3 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
> index 6e0cc50bbc13fc7f..9f338a8c5357a67e 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
> +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
> @@ -241,6 +241,12 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
> printing using the existing 'perf trace' syscall arg beautifiers to map integer
> arguments to strings (pid to comm, syscall id to syscall name, etc).
>
> +--syscall-period::
> + Trace a system call in the given period (in msec). This implements
> + sampling for syscalls in order to reduce the monitoring overhead.
> + For example, setting the sysall period to 100 (msec) means it will
> + sample a syscall and next one after 100 msec.
> +
>
> PAGEFAULTS
> ----------
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
> index 3c46de1a8d79bfe6..789eb0ffd5f90b61 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
> @@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ struct trace {
> } stats;
> unsigned int max_stack;
> unsigned int min_stack;
> + unsigned long sample_period_ms;
> int raw_augmented_syscalls_args_size;
> bool raw_augmented_syscalls;
> bool fd_path_disabled;
> @@ -5219,6 +5220,7 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv)
> "start"),
> OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "force-btf", &trace.force_btf, "Prefer btf_dump general pretty printer"
> "to customized ones"),
> + OPT_ULONG(0, "syscall-period", &trace.sample_period_ms, "syscall sampling period in ms"),
> OPTS_EVSWITCH(&trace.evswitch),
> OPT_END()
> };
> @@ -5326,6 +5328,9 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv)
> bpf_program__set_autoattach(prog, /*autoattach=*/false);
> }
>
> + if (trace.sample_period_ms)
> + trace.skel->rodata->sample_period = trace.sample_period_ms * NSEC_PER_MSEC;
> +
> err = augmented_raw_syscalls_bpf__load(trace.skel);
>
> if (err < 0) {
> 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 4a62ed593e84edf8..12272620dcd73700 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/augmented_raw_syscalls.bpf.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/augmented_raw_syscalls.bpf.c
> @@ -113,6 +113,22 @@ struct pids_filtered {
> __uint(max_entries, 64);
> } pids_filtered SEC(".maps");
>
> +struct sample_timestamp {
> + __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY);
> + __type(key, int);
> + __type(value, __u64);
> + __uint(max_entries, 1);
> +} sample_timestamp SEC(".maps");
> +
> +struct sample_filtered {
> + __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH);
> + __type(key, pid_t);
> + __type(value, bool);
> + __uint(max_entries, MAX_CPUS);
> +} sample_filtered SEC(".maps");
> +
> +const volatile __u64 sample_period;
> +
> struct augmented_args_payload {
> struct syscall_enter_args args;
> struct augmented_arg arg, arg2; // We have to reserve space for two arguments (rename, etc)
> @@ -428,6 +444,44 @@ static bool pid_filter__has(struct pids_filtered *pids, pid_t pid)
> return bpf_map_lookup_elem(pids, &pid) != NULL;
> }
>
> +static bool sample_filter__allow_enter(__u64 timestamp, pid_t pid)
> +{
> + int idx = 0;
> + __u64 *prev_ts;
> + bool ok = true;
> +
> + /* default behavior */
> + if (sample_period == 0)
> + return true;
> +
> + prev_ts = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&sample_timestamp, &idx);
> +
> + if (prev_ts) {
> + if ((*prev_ts + sample_period) > timestamp)
> + return false;
> + *prev_ts = timestamp;
> + } else {
> + bpf_map_update_elem(&sample_timestamp, &idx, ×tamp, BPF_ANY);
> + }
> +
> + bpf_map_update_elem(&sample_filtered, &pid, &ok, BPF_ANY);
> +
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> +static bool sample_filter__allow_exit(pid_t pid)
> +{
> + /* default behavior */
> + if (sample_period == 0)
> + return true;
> +
> + if (!bpf_map_lookup_elem(&sample_filtered, &pid))
> + return false;
> +
> + bpf_map_delete_elem(&sample_filtered, &pid);
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> static int augment_sys_enter(void *ctx, struct syscall_enter_args *args)
> {
> bool augmented, do_output = false;
> @@ -526,7 +580,9 @@ static int augment_sys_enter(void *ctx, struct syscall_enter_args *args)
> SEC("tp/raw_syscalls/sys_enter")
> int sys_enter(struct syscall_enter_args *args)
> {
> + pid_t pid = getpid();
> struct augmented_args_payload *augmented_args;
> +
> /*
> * We start len, the amount of data that will be in the perf ring
> * buffer, if this is not filtered out by one of pid_filter__has(),
> @@ -537,7 +593,10 @@ int sys_enter(struct syscall_enter_args *args)
> * initial, non-augmented raw_syscalls:sys_enter payload.
> */
>
> - if (pid_filter__has(&pids_filtered, getpid()))
> + if (pid_filter__has(&pids_filtered, pid))
> + return 0;
> +
> + if (!sample_filter__allow_enter(bpf_ktime_get_ns(), pid))
> return 0;
>
> augmented_args = augmented_args_payload();
> @@ -561,9 +620,13 @@ int sys_enter(struct syscall_enter_args *args)
> SEC("tp/raw_syscalls/sys_exit")
> int sys_exit(struct syscall_exit_args *args)
> {
> + pid_t pid = getpid();
> struct syscall_exit_args exit_args;
>
> - if (pid_filter__has(&pids_filtered, getpid()))
> + if (pid_filter__has(&pids_filtered, pid))
> + return 0;
> +
> + if (!sample_filter__allow_exit(pid))
> return 0;
>
> bpf_probe_read_kernel(&exit_args, sizeof(exit_args), args);
> --
> 2.47.0.338.g60cca15819-goog
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