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Impact: new unlikely/likely profiler
Andrew Morton recently suggested having an in-kernel way to profile
likely and unlikely macros. This patch achieves that goal.
When configured, every(*) likely and unlikely macro gets a counter attached
to it. When the condition is hit, the hit and misses of that condition
are recorded. These numbers can later be retrieved by:
/debugfs/tracing/profile_likely - All likely markers
/debugfs/tracing/profile_unlikely - All unlikely markers.
# cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | head
correct incorrect % Function File Line
------- --------- - -------- ---- ----
2167 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 832
0 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 804
2670 0 0 IS_ERR err.h 34
71230 5693 7 __switch_to process_64.c 673
76919 0 0 __switch_to process_64.c 639
43184 33743 43 __switch_to process_64.c 624
12740 64181 83 __switch_to process_64.c 594
12740 64174 83 __switch_to process_64.c 590
# cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | \
awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }' |head -20
44963 35259 43 __switch_to process_64.c 624
12762 67454 84 __switch_to process_64.c 594
12762 67447 84 __switch_to process_64.c 590
1478 595 28 syscall_get_error syscall.h 51
0 2821 100 syscall_trace_leave ptrace.c 1567
0 1 100 native_smp_prepare_cpus smpboot.c 1237
86338 265881 75 calc_delta_fair sched_fair.c 408
210410 108540 34 calc_delta_mine sched.c 1267
0 54550 100 sched_info_queued sched_stats.h 222
51899 66435 56 pick_next_task_fair sched_fair.c 1422
6 10 62 yield_task_fair sched_fair.c 982
7325 2692 26 rt_policy sched.c 144
0 1270 100 pre_schedule_rt sched_rt.c 1261
1268 48073 97 pick_next_task_rt sched_rt.c 884
0 45181 100 sched_info_dequeued sched_stats.h 177
0 15 100 sched_move_task sched.c 8700
0 15 100 sched_move_task sched.c 8690
53167 33217 38 schedule sched.c 4457
0 80208 100 sched_info_switch sched_stats.h 270
30585 49631 61 context_switch sched.c 2619
# cat /debug/tracing/profile_likely | awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }'
39900 36577 47 pick_next_task sched.c 4397
20824 15233 42 switch_mm mmu_context_64.h 18
0 7 100 __cancel_work_timer workqueue.c 560
617 66484 99 clocksource_adjust timekeeping.c 456
0 346340 100 audit_syscall_exit auditsc.c 1570
38 347350 99 audit_get_context auditsc.c 732
0 345244 100 audit_syscall_entry auditsc.c 1541
38 1017 96 audit_free auditsc.c 1446
0 1090 100 audit_alloc auditsc.c 862
2618 1090 29 audit_alloc auditsc.c 858
0 6 100 move_masked_irq migration.c 9
1 198 99 probe_sched_wakeup trace_sched_switch.c 58
2 2 50 probe_wakeup trace_sched_wakeup.c 227
0 2 100 probe_wakeup_sched_switch trace_sched_wakeup.c 144
4514 2090 31 __grab_cache_page filemap.c 2149
12882 228786 94 mapping_unevictable pagemap.h 50
4 11 73 __flush_cpu_slab slub.c 1466
627757 330451 34 slab_free slub.c 1731
2959 61245 95 dentry_lru_del_init dcache.c 153
946 1217 56 load_elf_binary binfmt_elf.c 904
102 82 44 disk_put_part genhd.h 206
1 1 50 dst_gc_task dst.c 82
0 19 100 tcp_mss_split_point tcp_output.c 1126
As you can see by the above, there's a bit of work to do in rethinking
the use of some unlikelys and likelys. Note: the unlikely case had 71 hits
that were more than 25%.
Note: After submitting my first version of this patch, Andrew Morton
showed me a version written by Daniel Walker, where I picked up
the following ideas from:
1) Using __builtin_constant_p to avoid profiling fixed values.
2) Using __FILE__ instead of instruction pointers.
3) Using the preprocessor to stop all profiling of likely
annotations from vsyscall_64.c.
Thanks to Andrew Morton, Arjan van de Ven, Theodore Tso and Ingo Molnar
for their feed back on this patch.
(*) Not ever unlikely is recorded, those that are used by vsyscalls
(a few of them) had to have profiling disabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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