Re: [PATCH v13 10/16] perf record: Introduce compressor at mmap buffer object

From: Bayduraev, Alexey V
Date: Tue Feb 01 2022 - 03:08:59 EST


On 01.02.2022 0:56, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 09:34:30PM +0300, Alexey Bayduraev escreveu:
>> Introduce compressor object into mmap object so it could be used to
>> pack the data stream from the corresponding kernel data buffer.
>> Initialize and make use of the introduced per mmap compressor.

SNIP

>> --- a/tools/perf/util/mmap.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/mmap.c
>> @@ -230,6 +230,10 @@ void mmap__munmap(struct mmap *map)
>> {
>> bitmap_free(map->affinity_mask.bits);
>>
>> +#ifndef PYTHON_PERF
>> + zstd_fini(&map->zstd_data);
>> +#endif
>> +
>
> Exposing this build detail in the main source code seems ugly, casual
> readers will scratch their heads trying to figure this out, so either
> we should have this behind some macro that hides these deps on a header
> file or add a comment stating why this is needed.

This is quick fix for the fact that the perf.so library for Python is not
compiled with -lzstd, but it includes mmap.c. Probably adding stub macro
to mmap.h would be better.

Regards,
Alexey

>
>
>> perf_mmap__aio_munmap(map);
>> if (map->data != NULL) {
>> munmap(map->data, mmap__mmap_len(map));
>> @@ -292,6 +296,12 @@ int mmap__mmap(struct mmap *map, struct mmap_params *mp, int fd, struct perf_cpu
>> map->core.flush = mp->flush;
>>
>> map->comp_level = mp->comp_level;
>> +#ifndef PYTHON_PERF
>> + if (zstd_init(&map->zstd_data, map->comp_level)) {
>> + pr_debug2("failed to init mmap commpressor, error %d\n", errno);
>> + return -1;
>> + }
>> +#endif
>>
>> if (map->comp_level && !perf_mmap__aio_enabled(map)) {
>> map->data = mmap(NULL, mmap__mmap_len(map), PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/mmap.h b/tools/perf/util/mmap.h
>> index 62f38d7977bb..cd8b0777473b 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/mmap.h
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/mmap.h
>> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
>> #endif
>> #include "auxtrace.h"
>> #include "event.h"
>> +#include "util/compress.h"
>>
>> struct aiocb;
>>
>> @@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ struct mmap {
>> void *data;
>> int comp_level;
>> struct perf_data_file *file;
>> + struct zstd_data zstd_data;
>> };
>>
>> struct mmap_params {
>> --
>> 2.19.0
>