This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf tools: Make perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events() scale
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: perf-tools-make-perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events-scale.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Mar 19 09:58:12 CET 2018
From: Stephane Eranian eranian@google.com Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:17:13 -0700 Subject: perf tools: Make perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events() scale
From: Stephane Eranian eranian@google.com
[ Upstream commit 88b897a30c525c2eee6e7f16e1e8d0f18830845e ]
This patch significantly improves the execution time of perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events() when running perf record on systems where processes have lots of threads.
It just happens that cat /proc/pid/maps support uses a O(N^2) algorithm to generate each map line in the maps file. If you have 1000 threads, then you have necessarily 1000 stacks. For each vma, you need to check if it corresponds to a thread's stack. With a large number of threads, this can take a very long time. I have seen latencies >> 10mn.
As of today, perf does not use the fact that a mapping is a stack, therefore we can work around the issue by using /proc/pid/tasks/pid/maps. This entry does not try to map a vma to stack and is thus much faster with no loss of functonality.
The proc-map-timeout logic is kept in case users still want some upper limit.
In V2, we fix the file path from /proc/pid/tasks/pid/maps to actual /proc/pid/task/pid/maps, tasks -> task. Thanks Arnaldo for catching this.
Committer note:
This problem seems to have been elliminated in the kernel since commit : b18cb64ead40 ("fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks").
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian eranian@google.com Acked-by: Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170315135059.GC2177@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489598233-25586-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.co... Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- tools/perf/util/event.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c @@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events(s if (machine__is_default_guest(machine)) return 0;
- snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s/proc/%d/maps", - machine->root_dir, pid); + snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s/proc/%d/task/%d/maps", + machine->root_dir, pid, pid);
fp = fopen(filename, "r"); if (fp == NULL) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eranian@google.com are
queue-4.4/perf-session-don-t-rely-on-evlist-in-pipe-mode.patch queue-4.4/perf-tools-make-perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events-scale.patch queue-4.4/perf-inject-copy-events-when-reordering-events-in-pipe-mode.patch