From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:09:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130712100933.GU25631@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130712094517.GE5315@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:45:17AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> One thing where we could help JITs is to offer a direct channel to any
> perf profiling process: a prctl(SYS_TRACE) which would send a free-form
> string to any profiling task interested in it.
>
> This would be a glorified anonymous write() in essence, without using a
> temporary file.
>
> The advantage would be that the string could be captured as-is and copied
> to the ring-buffer of the profiling task - instead of having to recover it
> later on.
>
> This is a model that I'd generally advocate: a single channel [per
> CPU-ified] for instrumentation/tracing.
'free format text string' is long and cumbersome and requires parsing.
And size is the primary component in speed.
But yes, we could allow injection of something like
struct PERF_RECORD_SYMBOL {
struct perf_event_header header;
u32 pid, tid;
u64 addr;
u64 len;
char symbol[];
};
I still like the idea of actually writing valid ELF DSOs in that that would
also get us the TEXT and allow assembly inspection etc. It might also allow a
JIT to re-map those DSOs and decrease warm-up time -- provided the actual
program didn't change meanwhile.
How to do injection is another thing though; I don't much like prctl(). Then
again, offering a special file like /sys/bus/event_source/sink isn't
particularly pretty either.
Then there is the issue of attaching to an already running JIT; we'd need means
to 'catch' up. The DSOs trivially allow this; the injection not so much.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-12 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-12 2:34 [PATCH 1/2] mm: rearrange madvise code to allow for reuse Colin Cross
2013-07-12 2:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory Colin Cross
2013-07-12 5:39 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 8:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 8:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 8:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 8:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 9:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 9:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 9:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 9:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 10:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 20:51 ` Colin Cross
2013-09-26 1:24 ` Colin Cross
2013-07-12 8:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 8:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 9:04 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 9:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 9:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 9:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 9:38 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 10:09 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-07-12 5:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 6:18 ` Colin Cross
2013-07-12 7:03 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 6:36 ` Dave Hansen
2013-07-12 6:42 ` Colin Cross
2013-07-14 14:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-14 19:27 ` Colin Cross
2013-07-14 14:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-14 19:34 ` Colin Cross
2013-10-15 1:31 [PATCHv3 1/2] mm: rearrange madvise code to allow for reuse Colin Cross
2013-10-15 1:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory Colin Cross
2013-10-15 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-15 21:32 ` Dave Hansen
2013-10-15 21:47 ` Colin Cross
2013-10-16 0:33 ` Minchan Kim
2013-10-16 20:00 ` Colin Cross
2013-10-16 20:34 ` Dave Hansen
2013-10-16 20:41 ` Colin Cross
2013-10-17 2:47 ` Minchan Kim
2013-10-30 21:15 ` Colin Cross
2013-11-01 1:30 ` Minchan Kim
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