[PATCH v7 0/4] dso/dsos memory savings and clean up

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Mon May 06 2024 - 14:02:20 EST


Hopefully the final 4 more patches from:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240202061532.1939474-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/
a near half year old adventure in trying to lower perf's dynamic
memory use. These final changes fix reference count issues, some
introduced by making find returned a getted (+1) reference counted
DSO. The last patch lowers the overhead using container_of rather than
a pointer except when reference count checking - asserts maintain the
validity of this.

v5. Rebase, adding use of accessors to dso as necessary. Previous
versions were all rebases or dropping merged patches.

v6. Rebase, move dsos__purge NULL assignment to dso->dsos to above
dso__put to avoid a warning reported by Arnaldo. This was part of
patch 5 in the v5 series.

v7. Rebase dropping 5 merged patches. Break apart the fixes per
file. Tweak to the map dso logic as the else path was missing a
dso__get.

Ian Rogers (4):
perf map: Add missing dso__put in map__new
perf symbol-elf: Ensure dso__put in machine__process_ksymbol_register
perf symbol-elf: dso__load_sym_internal reference count fixes
perf dso: Use container_of to avoid a pointer in dso_data

tools/perf/tests/dso-data.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++-------------------
tools/perf/util/dso.c | 16 +++++++++-
tools/perf/util/dso.h | 2 ++
tools/perf/util/machine.c | 6 ++--
tools/perf/util/map.c | 1 +
tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 51 +++++++++++++++---------------
6 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

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