Re: [PATCH v2 1/2]: perf util: map data buffer for preserving collected data

From: Alexey Budankov
Date: Mon Aug 27 2018 - 04:59:08 EST


Hi Jiri,

On 27.08.2018 11:28, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 07:42:09PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>>
>> The data buffer and accompanying AIO control block are allocated at
>> perf_mmap object and the mapped data buffer size is equal to
>> the kernel one.
>>
>> The buffer is then used to preserve profiling data ready for dumping
>> and queue it for asynchronous writing into perf trace thru implemented
>> record__aio_write() function.
>>
>> mmap_aio control structure of the size equal to the number of per-cpu
>> kernel buffers is used to keep pointers to enqueued AIO control
>> blocks for monitoring of completed AIO operations.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>> - converted zalloc() to calloc() for allocation of mmap_aio array,
>> - cleared typo and adjusted fallback branch code;
>> ---
>> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 7 +++++++
>> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 2 ++
>> tools/perf/util/mmap.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>> tools/perf/util/mmap.h | 3 +++
>> 5 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
>> index 22ebeb92ac51..a35675e9f3aa 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
>> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
>> #include <sys/mman.h>
>> #include <sys/wait.h>
>> #include <linux/time64.h>
>> +#include <aio.h>
>>
>> struct switch_output {
>> bool enabled;
>> @@ -121,6 +122,23 @@ static int record__write(struct record *rec, void *bf, size_t size)
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> +static int record__aio_write(int trace_fd, struct aiocb *cblock,
>> + void *buf, size_t size, off_t off)
>> +{
>
> this breaks bisection:
>
> builtin-record.c:125:12: error: ârecord__aio_writeâ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
> static int record__aio_write(int trace_fd, struct aiocb *cblock,

Moving it to [PATCH v3 2/2]. Thanks!

>
> jirka
>