From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Sebastian Sewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix trace entry and trace common fields for preempt_lazy_count
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:29:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200221162944.GD657629@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200221112152.031b4230@gandalf.local.home>
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:21:52AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:10:30 +0100
> Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:49:22AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:35:41 +0100
> > > Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > When commit 65fd07df3588 added preempt_lazy_count into 'struct trace_entry'
> > > > it did not add 4 bytes padding. Also we need to update the common fields
> > > > for tracepoint, otherwise some tools (bpftrace) stop working due to missing
> > > > common fields.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 65fd07df3588 ("x86: Support for lazy preemption")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> > > > ---
> > > > include/linux/trace_events.h | 2 ++
> > > > kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 3 +++
> > > > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/include/linux/trace_events.h b/include/linux/trace_events.h
> > > > index f3b1ef07e4a5..51a3f5188923 100644
> > > > --- a/include/linux/trace_events.h
> > > > +++ b/include/linux/trace_events.h
> > > > @@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ struct trace_entry {
> > > > unsigned short migrate_disable;
> > > > unsigned short padding;
> > > > unsigned char preempt_lazy_count;
> > > > + unsigned char padding1;
> > > > + unsigned short padding2;
> > >
> > >
> > > Wait! I don't have these changes in my tree, nor do I see them in
> > > Linus's. This really bloats the trace events! This header is very
> > > sensitive to size and just willy nilly adding to it is unacceptable.
> > > It's like adding to the page_struct. This gets added to *every* event,
> > > and a single byte added, causes 1M extra for a million events (very
> > > common in tracing). It causes 1G extra for a billion events.
> >
> > I'm on top of:
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git
> > v5.4.19-rt11-rebase
> >
>
> Ug, I now see it:
>
> struct trace_entry {
> unsigned short type;
> unsigned char flags;
> unsigned char preempt_count;
> int pid;
> unsigned short migrate_disable;
> unsigned short padding;
> unsigned char preempt_lazy_count;
> };
>
> Which adds a ton of bloat.
>
> > >
> > > Let's find a better way to handle this.
> >
> > I can fix the bpftrace tool I guess, through it's not
> > so convenient the way it's used in it
>
> Not as inconvenient as dropping events due to wasted space in the ring
> buffer. Note, this is attached to function tracing events. Any increase
> here will cause more function events to be dropped.
sure, I'll probably fix it anyway, but there might be other broken tools ;-)
libtraceevent/perf is actualy ok with this, probably following the
offsets and sizes directly.. actualy bpftrace might be special case
because it creates C struct out of the fields, so there's gap between
common fields and the rest of the fields
jirka
>
> Why is migrate disable a short? Is there going to be more that 256
> nesting?
>
> -- Steve
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-21 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-21 15:35 [PATCH] tracing: Fix trace entry and trace common fields for preempt_lazy_count Jiri Olsa
2020-02-21 15:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-21 16:10 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-21 16:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-21 16:29 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2020-02-21 16:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-21 16:37 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-02-21 17:44 ` [PATCH RT] tracing: make preempt_lazy and migrate_disable counter smaller Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-02-21 19:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-21 20:20 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-02-21 20:49 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-24 10:01 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-02-24 11:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-24 17:01 ` [PATCH RT v2] " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-03-09 12:30 ` Jiri Olsa
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