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authorYunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>2015-03-31 21:46:31 +0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-04-08 09:07:23 -0300
commit3a423a5c36d1a28a258beaa7db855568b82d07ab (patch)
tree43690d9e24d1fc65abae68f187623f73d169a834 /tools/perf
parentcb06ac256a16fc1a5ab063107c2b35b3b9e95102 (diff)
downloadlinux-3a423a5c36d1a28a258beaa7db855568b82d07ab.tar.gz
perf sched replay: Realloc the memory of pid_to_task stepwise to adapt to the different pid_max configurations
Although the memory of pid_to_task can be allocated via calloc according
to the value of /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max, it cannot handle the case when
pid_max is changed after 'perf sched record' has created its perf.data.

If the new pid_max configured in 'perf sched replay' is smaller than the
old pid_max configured in 'perf sched record', then it will cause the
assertion failure problem.

To solve this problem, we realloc the memory of pid_to_task stepwise
once the passed-in pid parameter in register_pid is larger than the
current pid_max.

Example:

Test environment: x86_64 with 160 cores

 $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
 163840
 $ perf sched record ls
 $ echo 5000 > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
 $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
 5000

Before this patch:

 $ perf sched replay
 run measurement overhead: 221 nsecs
 sleep measurement overhead: 55356 nsecs
 the run test took 1000011 nsecs
 the sleep test took 1060940 nsecs
 perf: builtin-sched.c:337: register_pid: Assertion `!(pid >= (unsigned
 long)pid_max)' failed.
 Aborted

After this patch:

 $ perf sched replay
 run measurement overhead: 221 nsecs
 sleep measurement overhead: 55611 nsecs
 the run test took 1000026 nsecs
 the sleep test took 1060486 nsecs
 nr_run_events:        10
 nr_sleep_events:      1562
 nr_wakeup_events:     5
 task      0 (                  :1:         1), nr_events: 1
 task      1 (                  :2:         2), nr_events: 1
 task      2 (                  :3:         3), nr_events: 1
 task      3 (                  :5:         5), nr_events: 1
 ...

Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427809596-29559-5-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-sched.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
index 20d887b222e4..dd714818fa4d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
@@ -334,7 +334,12 @@ static struct task_desc *register_pid(struct perf_sched *sched,
 			pid_max = MAX_PID;
 		BUG_ON((sched->pid_to_task = calloc(pid_max, sizeof(struct task_desc *))) == NULL);
 	}
-	BUG_ON(pid >= (unsigned long)pid_max);
+	if (pid >= (unsigned long)pid_max) {
+		BUG_ON((sched->pid_to_task = realloc(sched->pid_to_task, (pid + 1) *
+			sizeof(struct task_desc *))) == NULL);
+		while (pid >= (unsigned long)pid_max)
+			sched->pid_to_task[pid_max++] = NULL;
+	}
 
 	task = sched->pid_to_task[pid];