Re: [PATCH] perf lock: Allow concurrent record and report

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Nov 10 2022 - 13:35:12 EST


Em Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 03:26:01PM -0800, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 10:14 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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>
>
> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo