[PATCH v5 11/50] perf events: Remove scandir in thread synthesis

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Mon Nov 27 2023 - 17:10:35 EST


This avoids scanddir reading the directory into memory that's
allocated and instead allocates on the stack.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c b/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
index a0579c7d7b9e..7cc38f2a0e9e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <uapi/linux/mman.h> /* To get things like MAP_HUGETLB even on older libc headers */
#include <api/fs/fs.h>
#include <api/io.h>
+#include <api/io_dir.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
@@ -751,10 +752,10 @@ static int __event__synthesize_thread(union perf_event *comm_event,
bool needs_mmap, bool mmap_data)
{
char filename[PATH_MAX];
- struct dirent **dirent;
+ struct io_dir iod;
+ struct io_dirent64 *dent;
pid_t tgid, ppid;
int rc = 0;
- int i, n;

/* special case: only send one comm event using passed in pid */
if (!full) {
@@ -786,16 +787,19 @@ static int __event__synthesize_thread(union perf_event *comm_event,
snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s/proc/%d/task",
machine->root_dir, pid);

- n = scandir(filename, &dirent, filter_task, NULL);
- if (n < 0)
- return n;
+ io_dir__init(&iod, open(filename, O_CLOEXEC | O_DIRECTORY | O_RDONLY));
+ if (iod.dirfd < 0)
+ return -1;

- for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+ while ((dent = io_dir__readdir(&iod)) != NULL) {
char *end;
pid_t _pid;
bool kernel_thread = false;

- _pid = strtol(dirent[i]->d_name, &end, 10);
+ if (!isdigit(dent->d_name[0]))
+ continue;
+
+ _pid = strtol(dent->d_name, &end, 10);
if (*end)
continue;

@@ -829,9 +833,7 @@ static int __event__synthesize_thread(union perf_event *comm_event,
}
}

- for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
- zfree(&dirent[i]);
- free(dirent);
+ close(iod.dirfd);

return rc;
}
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2.43.0.rc1.413.gea7ed67945-goog