From 53df2b93441289848f5c2e76d19d1569816b2b9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Rogers Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 15:13:14 -0700 Subject: libsymbols kallsyms: Parse using io api 'perf record' will call kallsyms__parse 4 times during startup and process megabytes of data. This changes kallsyms__parse to use the io library rather than fgets to improve performance of the user code by over 8%. Before: Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark: Average kallsyms__parse took: 103.988 ms (+- 0.203 ms) After: Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark: Average kallsyms__parse took: 95.571 ms (+- 0.006 ms) For a workload like: $ perf record /bin/true Run under 'perf record -e cycles:u -g' the time goes from: Before 30.10% 1.67% perf perf [.] kallsyms__parse After 25.55% 20.04% perf perf [.] kallsyms__parse So a little under 5% of the start-up time is removed. A lot of what remains is on the kernel side, but caching kallsyms within perf would at least impact memory footprint. Committer notes: The internal/kallsyms-parse bench is run using: [root@five ~]# perf bench internals kallsyms-parse # Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark: Average kallsyms__parse took: 80.381 ms (+- 0.115 ms) [root@five ~]# And this pre-existing test uses these routines to parse kallsyms and then compare with the info obtained from the matching ELF symtab: [root@five ~]# perf test vmlinux 1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok [root@five ~]# Also we can't remove hex2u64() in this patch as this breaks the build: /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/build/perf/perf-in.o: in function `modules__parse': /home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/util/symbol.c:607: undefined reference to `hex2u64' /usr/bin/ld: /home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/util/symbol.c:607: undefined reference to `hex2u64' /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/build/perf/perf-in.o: in function `dso__load_perf_map': /home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/util/symbol.c:1477: undefined reference to `hex2u64' /usr/bin/ld: /home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/util/symbol.c:1483: undefined reference to `hex2u64' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Leave it there, move it in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200501221315.54715-3-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/lib/api/io.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/lib/api') diff --git a/tools/lib/api/io.h b/tools/lib/api/io.h index b7e55b5f8a4a..777c20f6b604 100644 --- a/tools/lib/api/io.h +++ b/tools/lib/api/io.h @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ #ifndef __API_IO__ #define __API_IO__ +#include +#include + struct io { /* File descriptor being read/ */ int fd; -- cgit v1.2.3