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Waiman Long
f9ceffb605 perf symbols: Fix vdso list searching
When "perf record" was used on a large machine with a lot of CPUs, the
perf post-processing time (the time after the workload was done until
the perf command itself exited) could take a lot of minutes and even
hours depending on how large the resulting perf.data file was.

While running AIM7 1500-user high_systime workload on a 80-core x86-64
system with a 3.9 kernel (with only the -s -a options used), the
workload itself took about 2 minutes to run and the perf.data file had a
size of 1108.746 MB. However, the post-processing step took more than 10
minutes.

With a gprof-profiled perf binary, the time spent by perf was as
follows:

  %   cumulative   self              self     total
 time   seconds   seconds    calls   s/call   s/call  name
 96.90    822.10   822.10   192156     0.00     0.00  dsos__find
  0.81    828.96     6.86 172089958     0.00     0.00  rb_next
  0.41    832.44     3.48 48539289     0.00     0.00  rb_erase

So 97% (822 seconds) of the time was spent in a single dsos_find()
function. After analyzing the call-graph data below:

 -----------------------------------------------
                 0.00  822.12  192156/192156      map__new [6]
 [7]     96.9    0.00  822.12  192156         vdso__dso_findnew [7]
               822.10    0.00  192156/192156      dsos__find [8]
                 0.01    0.00  192156/192156      dsos__add [62]
                 0.01    0.00  192156/192366      dso__new [61]
                 0.00    0.00       1/45282525     memdup [31]
                 0.00    0.00  192156/192230      dso__set_long_name [91]
 -----------------------------------------------
               822.10    0.00  192156/192156      vdso__dso_findnew [7]
 [8]     96.9  822.10    0.00  192156         dsos__find [8]
 -----------------------------------------------

It was found that the vdso__dso_findnew() function failed to locate
VDSO__MAP_NAME ("[vdso]") in the dso list and have to insert a new
entry at the end for 192156 times. This problem is due to the fact that
there are 2 types of name in the dso entry - short name and long name.
The initial dso__new() adds "[vdso]" to both the short and long names.
After that, vdso__dso_findnew() modifies the long name to something
like /tmp/perf-vdso.so-NoXkDj. The dsos__find() function only compares
the long name. As a result, the same vdso entry is duplicated many
time in the dso list. This bug increases memory consumption as well
as slows the symbol processing time to a crawl.

To resolve this problem, the dsos__find() function interface was
modified to enable searching either the long name or the short
name. The vdso__dso_findnew() will now search only the short name
while the other call sites search for the long name as before.

With this change, the cpu time of perf was reduced from 848.38s to
15.77s and dsos__find() only accounted for 0.06% of the total time.

  0.06     15.73     0.01   192151     0.00     0.00  dsos__find

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: "Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368110568-64714-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
[ replaced TRUE/FALSE with stdbool.h equivalents, fixing builds where
  those macros are not present (NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_LIBPERL=1), fix from Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-07-08 17:59:07 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
7dbf4dcfe2 perf tools: Back [vdso] DSO with real data
Storing data for VDSO shared object, because we need it for the post
unwind processing.

The VDSO shared object is same for all process on a running system, so
it makes no difference when we store it inside the tracer - perf.

When [vdso] map memory is hit, we retrieve [vdso] DSO image and store it
into temporary file.

During the build-id processing phase, the [vdso] DSO image is stored in
build-id db, and build-id reference is made inside perf.data. The
build-id vdso file object is called '[vdso]'. We don't use temporary
file name which gets removed when record is finished.

During report phase the vdso build-id object is treated as any other
build-id DSO object.

Adding following API for vdso object:

  bool is_vdso_map(const char *filename)
    - returns true if the filename matches vdso map name

  struct dso *vdso__dso_findnew(struct list_head *head)
    - find/create proper vdso DSO object

  vdso__exit(void)
    - removes temporary VDSO image if there's any

This change makes backtrace dwarf post unwind possible from [vdso] maps.

Following output is current report of [vdso] sample dwarf backtrace:

  # Overhead  Command      Shared Object                         Symbol
  # ........  .......  .................  .............................
  #
      99.52%       ex  [vdso]             [.] 0x00007fff3ace89af
                   |
                   --- 0x7fff3ace89af

Following output is new report of [vdso] sample dwarf backtrace:

  # Overhead  Command      Shared Object                         Symbol
  # ........  .......  .................  .............................
  #
      99.52%       ex  [vdso]             [.] 0x00000000000009af
                   |
                   --- 0x7fff3ace89af
                       main
                       __libc_start_main
                       _start

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347295819-23177-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
[ committer note: s/ALIGN/PERF_ALIGN/g to cope with the android build changes ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-09-11 12:08:30 -03:00