Re: [PATCH] libperf: Add API for allocating new thread map

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Feb 16 2022 - 08:54:22 EST


Em Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 01:18:31PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:52:25AM +0200, Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) wrote:
> > The existing API perf_thread_map__new_dummy() allocates new thread map
> > for one thread. I couldn't find a way to reallocate the map with more
> > threads, or to allocate a new map for more than one thread. Having
> > multiple threads in a thread map is essential for some use cases.
> > That's why a new API is proposed, which allocates a new thread map
> > for given number of threads:
> > perf_thread_map__new()
>
> I'm ok with that, just wondering if we should call it 'perf_thread_map__new_nr'
> because we already have perf_cpu_map__new(const char *cpu_list) so
> it might be better to keep perf_cpu_map and perf_thread_map in sync

> Arnaldo, thoughts on this?

Agreed on trying to have similar semantics for the default, main
constructor, so we probably need perf_thread_map__new(const char *thread_list).

In tools/perf/util/thread_map.c, from where tools/lib/threadmap.c came
from we have many alternative constructors:

⬢[acme@toolbox perf]$ grep 'struct perf_thread_map \*thread_map__new' tools/perf/util/thread_map.c
struct perf_thread_map *thread_map__new_by_pid(pid_t pid)
struct perf_thread_map *thread_map__new_by_tid(pid_t tid)
struct perf_thread_map *thread_map__new_all_cpus(void)
struct perf_thread_map *thread_map__new_by_uid(uid_t uid)
struct perf_thread_map *thread_map__new(pid_t pid, pid_t tid, uid_t uid)
static struct perf_thread_map *thread_map__new_by_pid_str(const char *pid_str)
struct perf_thread_map *thread_map__new_by_tid_str(const char *tid_str)
struct perf_thread_map *thread_map__new_str(const char *pid, const char *tid,
struct perf_thread_map *thread_map__new_event(struct perf_record_thread_map *event)
⬢[acme@toolbox perf]$

The one you want is almost:

thread_map__new_by_tid_str(const char *tid_str)

but perhaps it would be better to have:

struct perf_thread_map *thread_map__new_array(int nr_threads, pid_t *array);

But yeah, if your logic needs to first allocate space for the thread_map
and then populate it, make it so that array == NULL is supported for
that case, then thread_map__new_array() will not touch it and set
everything to -1, to be populated later using perf_thread_map__set_pid().

With that thread_map__new_by_tid_str() could be reimplemented as a
wrapper around thread_map__new_array(). :-)

While we're on this, shouldn't we rename 'thread' in
tools/lib/perf/include/perf/threadmap.h and threadmap.c to be 'idx' to
avoid confusion?

- Arnaldo

> jirka
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt | 1 +
> > tools/lib/perf/include/perf/threadmap.h | 1 +
> > tools/lib/perf/libperf.map | 1 +
> > tools/lib/perf/tests/test-threadmap.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > tools/lib/perf/threadmap.c | 15 +++++++++----
> > 5 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt
> > index 32c5051c24eb..9cbd41c29bff 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt
> > +++ b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt
> > @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
> > struct perf_thread_map;
> >
> > struct perf_thread_map *perf_thread_map__new_dummy(void);
> > + struct perf_thread_map *perf_thread_map__new(int nr);
> >
> > void perf_thread_map__set_pid(struct perf_thread_map *map, int thread, pid_t pid);
> > char *perf_thread_map__comm(struct perf_thread_map *map, int thread);
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/threadmap.h b/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/threadmap.h
> > index a7c50de8d010..47d433416040 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/threadmap.h
> > +++ b/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/threadmap.h
> > @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> > struct perf_thread_map;
> >
> > LIBPERF_API struct perf_thread_map *perf_thread_map__new_dummy(void);
> > +LIBPERF_API struct perf_thread_map *perf_thread_map__new(int nr);
> >
> > LIBPERF_API void perf_thread_map__set_pid(struct perf_thread_map *map, int thread, pid_t pid);
> > LIBPERF_API char *perf_thread_map__comm(struct perf_thread_map *map, int thread);
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/libperf.map b/tools/lib/perf/libperf.map
> > index 93696affda2e..240a2f087b70 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/perf/libperf.map
> > +++ b/tools/lib/perf/libperf.map
> > @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ LIBPERF_0.0.1 {
> > perf_cpu_map__empty;
> > perf_cpu_map__max;
> > perf_cpu_map__has;
> > + perf_thread_map__new;
> > perf_thread_map__new_dummy;
> > perf_thread_map__set_pid;
> > perf_thread_map__comm;
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/tests/test-threadmap.c b/tools/lib/perf/tests/test-threadmap.c
> > index 5e2a0291e94c..3388bf36dfc0 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/perf/tests/test-threadmap.c
> > +++ b/tools/lib/perf/tests/test-threadmap.c
> > @@ -11,9 +11,12 @@ static int libperf_print(enum libperf_print_level level,
> > return vfprintf(stderr, fmt, ap);
> > }
> >
> > +#define THREADS_NR 5
> > +
> > int test_threadmap(int argc, char **argv)
> > {
> > struct perf_thread_map *threads;
> > + int i;
> >
> > __T_START;
> >
> > @@ -27,6 +30,30 @@ int test_threadmap(int argc, char **argv)
> > perf_thread_map__put(threads);
> > perf_thread_map__put(threads);
> >
> > + threads = perf_thread_map__new(THREADS_NR);
> > + if (!threads)
> > + tests_failed++;
> > +
> > + if (perf_thread_map__nr(threads) != THREADS_NR)
> > + tests_failed++;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < THREADS_NR; i++) {
> > + if (perf_thread_map__pid(threads, i) != -1)
> > + tests_failed++;
> > + }
> > +
> > + for (i = 1; i < THREADS_NR; i++)
> > + perf_thread_map__set_pid(threads, i, i * 100);
> > +
> > + if (perf_thread_map__pid(threads, 0) != -1)
> > + tests_failed++;
> > +
> > + for (i = 1; i < THREADS_NR; i++) {
> > + if (perf_thread_map__pid(threads, i) != i * 100)
> > + tests_failed++;
> > + }
> > + perf_thread_map__put(threads);
> > +
> > __T_END;
> > return tests_failed == 0 ? 0 : -1;
> > }
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/threadmap.c b/tools/lib/perf/threadmap.c
> > index e92c368b0a6c..843fe1070cc9 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/perf/threadmap.c
> > +++ b/tools/lib/perf/threadmap.c
> > @@ -42,18 +42,25 @@ char *perf_thread_map__comm(struct perf_thread_map *map, int thread)
> > return map->map[thread].comm;
> > }
> >
> > -struct perf_thread_map *perf_thread_map__new_dummy(void)
> > +struct perf_thread_map *perf_thread_map__new(int nr)
> > {
> > - struct perf_thread_map *threads = thread_map__alloc(1);
> > + struct perf_thread_map *threads = thread_map__alloc(nr);
> > + int i;
> >
> > if (threads != NULL) {
> > - perf_thread_map__set_pid(threads, 0, -1);
> > - threads->nr = 1;
> > + for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
> > + perf_thread_map__set_pid(threads, i, -1);
> > + threads->nr = nr;
> > refcount_set(&threads->refcnt, 1);
> > }
> > return threads;
> > }
> >
> > +struct perf_thread_map *perf_thread_map__new_dummy(void)
> > +{
> > + return perf_thread_map__new(1);
> > +}
> > +
> > static void perf_thread_map__delete(struct perf_thread_map *threads)
> > {
> > if (threads) {
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >

--

- Arnaldo