linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 5/7] perf events: Remove scandir in thread synthesis

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Message-Id: <20250207232452.994822-6-irogers@google.com>
Date: Fri,  7 Feb 2025 15:24:46 -0800
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, 
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, 
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, 
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>, 
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>, Sam James <sam@...too.org>, 
	Jesper Juhl <jesperjuhl76@...il.com>, James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>, 
	Zhongqiu Han <quic_zhonhan@...cinc.com>, Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...ilicon.com>, 
	Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>, Michael Petlan <mpetlan@...hat.com>, 
	Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@...hat.com>, Anne Macedo <retpolanne@...teo.net>, 
	Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>, 
	Jean-Philippe Romain <jean-philippe.romain@...s.st.com>, Junhao He <hejunhao3@...wei.com>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, 
	"Krzysztof Łopatowski" <krzysztof.m.lopatowski@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/7] perf events: Remove scandir in thread synthesis

This avoids scanddir reading the directory into memory that's
allocated and instead allocates on the stack.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c b/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
index 6923b0d5efed..2c1ba39dfdde 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include <uapi/linux/mman.h> /* To get things like MAP_HUGETLB even on older libc headers */
 #include <api/fs/fs.h>
 #include <api/io.h>
+#include <api/io_dir.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
@@ -767,10 +768,10 @@ static int __event__synthesize_thread(union perf_event *comm_event,
 				      bool needs_mmap, bool mmap_data)
 {
 	char filename[PATH_MAX];
-	struct dirent **dirent;
+	struct io_dir iod;
+	struct io_dirent64 *dent;
 	pid_t tgid, ppid;
 	int rc = 0;
-	int i, n;
 
 	/* special case: only send one comm event using passed in pid */
 	if (!full) {
@@ -802,16 +803,19 @@ static int __event__synthesize_thread(union perf_event *comm_event,
 	snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s/proc/%d/task",
 		 machine->root_dir, pid);
 
-	n = scandir(filename, &dirent, filter_task, NULL);
-	if (n < 0)
-		return n;
+	io_dir__init(&iod, open(filename, O_CLOEXEC | O_DIRECTORY | O_RDONLY));
+	if (iod.dirfd < 0)
+		return -1;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+	while ((dent = io_dir__readdir(&iod)) != NULL) {
 		char *end;
 		pid_t _pid;
 		bool kernel_thread = false;
 
-		_pid = strtol(dirent[i]->d_name, &end, 10);
+		if (!isdigit(dent->d_name[0]))
+			continue;
+
+		_pid = strtol(dent->d_name, &end, 10);
 		if (*end)
 			continue;
 
@@ -845,9 +849,7 @@ static int __event__synthesize_thread(union perf_event *comm_event,
 		}
 	}
 
-	for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
-		zfree(&dirent[i]);
-	free(dirent);
+	close(iod.dirfd);
 
 	return rc;
 }
-- 
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