Re: [PATCH v5 06/50] tools lib api: Add io_dir an allocation free readdir alternative

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Nov 30 2023 - 12:21:59 EST


Em Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 02:08:18PM -0800, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> glibc's opendir allocates a minimum of 32kb, when called recursively
> for a directory tree the memory consumption can add up - nearly 300kb
> during perf start-up when processing modules. Add a stack allocated
> variant of readdir sized a little more than 1kb.

Now, on some systems:

CC /tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.o
In file included from util/machine.c:39:
/tmp/build/perf/libapi/include/api/io_dir.h: In function ‘io_dir__readdir’:
/tmp/build/perf/libapi/include/api/io_dir.h:46:16: error: implicit declaration of function ‘getdents64’; did you mean ‘getentropy’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
ssize_t rc = getdents64(iod->dirfd, iod->buff, sizeof(iod->buff));
^~~~~~~~~~
getentropy
CC /tmp/build/perf/tests/workloads/brstack.o
CC /tmp/build/perf/tests/workloads/datasym.o
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/maps.o


> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/lib/api/Makefile | 2 +-
> tools/lib/api/io_dir.h | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/lib/api/io_dir.h
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/api/Makefile b/tools/lib/api/Makefile
> index 044860ac1ed1..186aa407de8c 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/api/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/lib/api/Makefile
> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ install_lib: $(LIBFILE)
> $(call do_install_mkdir,$(libdir_SQ)); \
> cp -fpR $(LIBFILE) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir_SQ)
>
> -HDRS := cpu.h debug.h io.h
> +HDRS := cpu.h debug.h io.h io_dir.h
> FD_HDRS := fd/array.h
> FS_HDRS := fs/fs.h fs/tracing_path.h
> INSTALL_HDRS_PFX := $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/include/api
> diff --git a/tools/lib/api/io_dir.h b/tools/lib/api/io_dir.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..f3479006edb6
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/lib/api/io_dir.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause) */
> +/*
> + * Lightweight directory reading library.
> + */
> +#ifndef __API_IO_DIR__
> +#define __API_IO_DIR__
> +
> +#include <dirent.h>
> +#include <fcntl.h>
> +#include <stdlib.h>
> +#include <unistd.h>
> +#include <sys/stat.h>
> +
> +struct io_dirent64 {
> + ino64_t d_ino; /* 64-bit inode number */
> + off64_t d_off; /* 64-bit offset to next structure */
> + unsigned short d_reclen; /* Size of this dirent */
> + unsigned char d_type; /* File type */
> + char d_name[NAME_MAX + 1]; /* Filename (null-terminated) */
> +};
> +
> +struct io_dir {
> + int dirfd;
> + ssize_t available_bytes;
> + struct io_dirent64 *next;
> + struct io_dirent64 buff[4];
> +};
> +
> +static inline void io_dir__init(struct io_dir *iod, int dirfd)
> +{
> + iod->dirfd = dirfd;
> + iod->available_bytes = 0;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void io_dir__rewinddir(struct io_dir *iod)
> +{
> + lseek(iod->dirfd, 0, SEEK_SET);
> + iod->available_bytes = 0;
> +}
> +
> +static inline struct io_dirent64 *io_dir__readdir(struct io_dir *iod)
> +{
> + struct io_dirent64 *entry;
> +
> + if (iod->available_bytes <= 0) {
> + ssize_t rc = getdents64(iod->dirfd, iod->buff, sizeof(iod->buff));
> +
> + if (rc <= 0)
> + return NULL;
> + iod->available_bytes = rc;
> + iod->next = iod->buff;
> + }
> + entry = iod->next;
> + iod->next = (struct io_dirent64 *)((char *)entry + entry->d_reclen);
> + iod->available_bytes -= entry->d_reclen;
> + return entry;
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool io_dir__is_dir(const struct io_dir *iod, struct io_dirent64 *dent)
> +{
> + if (dent->d_type == DT_UNKNOWN) {
> + struct stat st;
> +
> + if (fstatat(iod->dirfd, dent->d_name, &st, /*flags=*/0))
> + return false;
> +
> + if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
> + dent->d_type = DT_DIR;
> + return true;
> + }
> + }
> + return dent->d_type == DT_DIR;
> +}
> +
> +#endif
> --
> 2.43.0.rc1.413.gea7ed67945-goog
>

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- Arnaldo