Re: [PATCH 1/1] Reduce synchronize_rcu() waiting time

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:15:53 +0100
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> wrote:

> Collect traces as much as you want: XQ-DQ54:/sys/kernel/tracing # echo 1 > tracing_on; sleep 10; echo 0 > tracing_on
> Next problem is how to parse it. Of course you will not be able to parse
> megabytes of traces. For that purpose i use a special C trace parser.
> If you need an example please let me know i can show here.

Not sure if you are familiar with trace-cmd, but the above could have been:

 # trace-cmd record -e rcu sleep 10

and then you get the trace.dat file, which reports as:

 # trace-cmd report

If you need special parsing, there's a libtracecmd library that lets you do
all that!

  https://www.trace-cmd.org/Documentation/libtracecmd/

And for parsing events:

  https://www.trace-cmd.org/Documentation/libtraceevent/


Basically have:

struct my_info {
	/* store state info here */
};

int main(...) {
	struct tracecmd_input *handle;
	struct my_info info;
	char *file = argv[1];

	handle = tracecmd_open(file);

	tracecmd_follow_event(handle, "rcu", "rcu_batch_start",
			batch_start, &info);

	tracecmd_follow_event(handle, "rcu", "rcu_batch_end",
			batch_end, &info);

	tracecmd_follow_event(handle, "rcu", "rcu_invoke_callback",
			invoke_callback, &info);

	tracecmd_iterate_events(handle, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);

	tracecmd_close(handle);
}

Where it will iterate the "trace.dat" file passed it, and every time it
hits an event registered by follow_event it will call that function:

static int batch_start(struct tracecmd_input *handle, struct tep_event *event,
		struct tep_record *record, int cpu, void *data)
{
	struct my_info *info = data;

	info->start_timestamp = record->ts;

	return 0;
}

static int batch_end(struct tracecmd_input *handle, struct tep_event *event,
		struct tep_record *record, int cpu, void *data)
{
	struct my_info *info = data;


	printf("time = %lld -> %lld\n", info->start_timestapm,
				record->ts);
	return 0;
}

static int invoke_callback(struct tracecmd_input *handle, struct tep_event *event,
		struct tep_record *record, int cpu, void *data)
{
	struct my_info *info = data;
	struct tep_handle *tep = tracecmd_get_tep(handle);
	static struct tep_format_field *ip_field;
	unsigned long long ip;
	const char *func;
	int pid;

	if (!ip_field)
		ip_field = tep_find_field(event, "func");

	tep_read_number_field(ip_field, record->data, &ip);
	func = tep_find_function(tep, ip);

	pid = tep_data_pid(tep, record);

	if (func)
		printf("Processing function %s for pid %d\n", func, pid);
	else
		printf("Processing address 0x%llx for pid %d\n", ip, pid);

	return 0;
}


And much more ;-)

Oh, and if you just want to read the live trace without recording, you
could always use libtracefs:

 https://www.trace-cmd.org/Documentation/libtracefs/

And instead of using tracecmd_follow_event() with
tracecmd_iterate_events(), you can use:

	const char *systems = { "rcu" };

	tep = tracefs_local_events_systems(NULL, systems);

	tracefs_follow_event(tep, NULL, "rcu", "rcu_invoke_callback",
			invoke_callback, &info);

and iterate the live events with:

	tracefs_iterate_raw_events(tep, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);


With the callback for this being (very similar):

static int invoke_callback(struct tep_event *event,
		struct tep_record *record, int cpu, void *data)
{
	struct my_info *info = data;
	struct tep_handle *tep = event->tep;
	static struct tep_format_field *ip_field;
	unsigned long long ip;
	const char *func;
	int pid;

	if (!ip_field)
		ip_field = tep_find_field(event, "func");

	tep_read_number_field(ip_field, record->data, &ip);
	func = tep_find_function(tep, ip);

	pid = tep_data_pid(tep, record);

	if (func)
		printf("Processing function %s for pid %d\n", func, pid);
	else
		printf("Processing address 0x%llx for pid %d\n", ip, pid);

	return 0;
}


-- Steve