Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf_event: cleanup for event profile buffer operation

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Mon Jan 18 2010 - 11:22:38 EST


Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Introduce ftrace_profile_buf_begin() and ftrace_profile_buf_end() to
> operate event profile buffer, clean up redundant code
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[...]

> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_profile.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_profile.c
> index 9e25573..f0fa16b 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_profile.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_profile.c
> @@ -9,11 +9,8 @@
> #include "trace.h"
>
>
> -char *perf_trace_buf;
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_trace_buf);
> -
> -char *perf_trace_buf_nmi;
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_trace_buf_nmi);
> +static char *perf_trace_buf;
> +static char *perf_trace_buf_nmi;
>
> typedef typeof(char [FTRACE_MAX_PROFILE_SIZE]) perf_trace_t ;
>
> @@ -120,3 +117,56 @@ void ftrace_profile_disable(int event_id)
> }
> mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
> }
> +
> +void *ftrace_profile_buf_begin(int size, unsigned short type, int *rctxp,
> + unsigned long *irq_flags)
> +{
> + struct trace_entry *entry;
> + char *trace_buf, *raw_data;
> + int pc, cpu;
> +
> + pc = preempt_count();
> +
> + /* Protect the per cpu buffer, begin the rcu read side */
> + local_irq_save(*irq_flags);
> +
> + *rctxp = perf_swevent_get_recursion_context();
> + if (*rctxp < 0)
> + goto err_recursion;
> +
> + cpu = smp_processor_id();
> +
> + if (in_nmi())
> + trace_buf = rcu_dereference(perf_trace_buf_nmi);
> + else
> + trace_buf = rcu_dereference(perf_trace_buf);
> +
> + if (!trace_buf)
> + goto err;
> +
> + raw_data = per_cpu_ptr(trace_buf, cpu);
> +
> + /* zero the dead bytes from align to not leak stack to user */
> + *(u64 *)(&raw_data[size - sizeof(u64)]) = 0ULL;
> +
> + entry = (struct trace_entry *)raw_data;
> + tracing_generic_entry_update(entry, *irq_flags, pc);
> + entry->type = type;
> +
> + return raw_data;
> +err:
> + perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(*rctxp);
> +err_recursion:
> + local_irq_restore(*irq_flags);
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +void ftrace_profile_buf_end(void *raw_data, int size, int rctx, u64 addr,
> + u64 count, unsigned long irq_flags)
> +{
> + struct trace_entry *entry = raw_data;
> +
> + perf_tp_event(entry->type, addr, count, raw_data, size);
> + perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(rctx);
> + local_irq_restore(irq_flags);
> +}

Hmm, could you make it inline-functions or add __kprobes?
Because it is called from kprobes, we don't want to probe
the function which will be called from kprobes handlers itself.

(IMHO, from the viewpoint of performance, inline-function
could be better.)

Thank you,

--
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx

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