[PATCH] perf lock: Allow concurrent record and report

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Fri Nov 04 2022 - 01:14:47 EST


To support live monitoring of kernel lock contention without BPF,
it should support something like below:

# perf lock record -a -o- sleep 1 | perf lock contention -i-
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller

2 10.27 us 6.17 us 5.13 us spinlock load_balance+0xc03
1 5.29 us 5.29 us 5.29 us rwlock:W ep_scan_ready_list+0x54
1 4.12 us 4.12 us 4.12 us spinlock smpboot_thread_fn+0x116
1 3.28 us 3.28 us 3.28 us mutex pipe_read+0x50

To do that, it needs to handle HEAD_ATTR, HEADER_EVENT_UPDATE and
HEADER_TRACING_DATA which are generated only for the pipe mode.
And setting event handler also should be delayed until it gets the
event information.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-lock.c | 68 +++++++++++++++--------
tools/perf/tests/shell/lock_contention.sh | 15 ++++-
2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c b/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
index 6f79175365a8..0d280093b19a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
@@ -1390,6 +1390,34 @@ static int dump_info(void)
return rc;
}

+static const struct evsel_str_handler lock_tracepoints[] = {
+ { "lock:lock_acquire", evsel__process_lock_acquire, }, /* CONFIG_LOCKDEP */
+ { "lock:lock_acquired", evsel__process_lock_acquired, }, /* CONFIG_LOCKDEP, CONFIG_LOCK_STAT */
+ { "lock:lock_contended", evsel__process_lock_contended, }, /* CONFIG_LOCKDEP, CONFIG_LOCK_STAT */
+ { "lock:lock_release", evsel__process_lock_release, }, /* CONFIG_LOCKDEP */
+};
+
+static const struct evsel_str_handler contention_tracepoints[] = {
+ { "lock:contention_begin", evsel__process_contention_begin, },
+ { "lock:contention_end", evsel__process_contention_end, },
+};
+
+static int process_event_update(struct perf_tool *tool,
+ union perf_event *event,
+ struct evlist **pevlist)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = perf_event__process_event_update(tool, event, pevlist);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+
+ /* this can return -EEXIST since we call it for each evsel */
+ perf_session__set_tracepoints_handlers(session, lock_tracepoints);
+ perf_session__set_tracepoints_handlers(session, contention_tracepoints);
+ return 0;
+}
+
typedef int (*tracepoint_handler)(struct evsel *evsel,
struct perf_sample *sample);

@@ -1545,28 +1573,19 @@ static void print_contention_result(struct lock_contention *con)
print_bad_events(bad, total);
}

-static const struct evsel_str_handler lock_tracepoints[] = {
- { "lock:lock_acquire", evsel__process_lock_acquire, }, /* CONFIG_LOCKDEP */
- { "lock:lock_acquired", evsel__process_lock_acquired, }, /* CONFIG_LOCKDEP, CONFIG_LOCK_STAT */
- { "lock:lock_contended", evsel__process_lock_contended, }, /* CONFIG_LOCKDEP, CONFIG_LOCK_STAT */
- { "lock:lock_release", evsel__process_lock_release, }, /* CONFIG_LOCKDEP */
-};
-
-static const struct evsel_str_handler contention_tracepoints[] = {
- { "lock:contention_begin", evsel__process_contention_begin, },
- { "lock:contention_end", evsel__process_contention_end, },
-};
-
static bool force;

static int __cmd_report(bool display_info)
{
int err = -EINVAL;
struct perf_tool eops = {
+ .attr = perf_event__process_attr,
+ .event_update = process_event_update,
.sample = process_sample_event,
.comm = perf_event__process_comm,
.mmap = perf_event__process_mmap,
.namespaces = perf_event__process_namespaces,
+ .tracing_data = perf_event__process_tracing_data,
.ordered_events = true,
};
struct perf_data data = {
@@ -1585,17 +1604,19 @@ static int __cmd_report(bool display_info)
symbol_conf.sort_by_name = true;
symbol__init(&session->header.env);

- if (!perf_session__has_traces(session, "lock record"))
- goto out_delete;
+ if (!data.is_pipe) {
+ if (!perf_session__has_traces(session, "lock record"))
+ goto out_delete;

- if (perf_session__set_tracepoints_handlers(session, lock_tracepoints)) {
- pr_err("Initializing perf session tracepoint handlers failed\n");
- goto out_delete;
- }
+ if (perf_session__set_tracepoints_handlers(session, lock_tracepoints)) {
+ pr_err("Initializing perf session tracepoint handlers failed\n");
+ goto out_delete;
+ }

- if (perf_session__set_tracepoints_handlers(session, contention_tracepoints)) {
- pr_err("Initializing perf session tracepoint handlers failed\n");
- goto out_delete;
+ if (perf_session__set_tracepoints_handlers(session, contention_tracepoints)) {
+ pr_err("Initializing perf session tracepoint handlers failed\n");
+ goto out_delete;
+ }
}

if (setup_output_field(false, output_fields))
@@ -1633,9 +1654,12 @@ static int __cmd_contention(int argc, const char **argv)
{
int err = -EINVAL;
struct perf_tool eops = {
+ .attr = perf_event__process_attr,
+ .event_update = process_event_update,
.sample = process_sample_event,
.comm = perf_event__process_comm,
.mmap = perf_event__process_mmap,
+ .tracing_data = perf_event__process_tracing_data,
.ordered_events = true,
};
struct perf_data data = {
@@ -1698,7 +1722,7 @@ static int __cmd_contention(int argc, const char **argv)
pr_err("lock contention BPF setup failed\n");
goto out_delete;
}
- } else {
+ } else if (!data.is_pipe) {
if (!perf_session__has_traces(session, "lock record"))
goto out_delete;

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/lock_contention.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/lock_contention.sh
index 04bf604e3c6f..f7bd0d8eb5c3 100755
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/lock_contention.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/lock_contention.sh
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ test_bpf()

if ! perf lock con -b true > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
echo "[Skip] No BPF support"
- exit
+ return
fi

# the perf lock contention output goes to the stderr
@@ -65,9 +65,22 @@ test_bpf()
fi
}

+test_record_concurrent()
+{
+ echo "Testing perf lock record and perf lock contention at the same time"
+ perf lock record -o- -- perf bench sched messaging 2> /dev/null | \
+ perf lock contention -i- -E 1 -q 2> ${result}
+ if [ $(cat "${result}" | wc -l) != "1" ]; then
+ echo "[Fail] Recorded result count is not 1:" $(cat "${result}" | wc -l)
+ err=1
+ exit
+ fi
+}
+
check

test_record
test_bpf
+test_record_concurrent

exit ${err}
--
2.38.1.431.g37b22c650d-goog