[PATCH 52/73] perf record: Implement compression for serial trace streaming

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri May 17 2019 - 15:44:02 EST


From: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Compression is implemented using the functions from zstd.c. As the
memory to operate on the compression uses mmap->data buffer.

If Zstd streaming compression API fails for some reason the data to be
compressed are just copied into the memory buffers using plain memcpy().

Compressed trace frame consists of an array of PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED
records. Each element of the array is not longer that
PERF_SAMPLE_MAX_SIZE and consists of perf_event_header followed by the
compressed chunk that is decompressed on the loading stage.

Comitter notes:

Undo some unnecessary line breaks, remove some unnecessary () around
zstd_data to then just get its address, and fix conflicts with
BPF_PROG_INFO/BPF_BTF patchkits.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/744df43f-3932-2594-ddef-1e99a3cad03a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
tools/perf/util/session.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index ca6d7488e34b..de9632c69852 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ static int record__write(struct record *rec, struct perf_mmap *map __maybe_unuse
return 0;
}

+static size_t zstd_compress(struct perf_session *session, void *dst, size_t dst_size,
+ void *src, size_t src_size);
+
#ifdef HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
static int record__aio_write(struct aiocb *cblock, int trace_fd,
void *buf, size_t size, off_t off)
@@ -392,6 +395,11 @@ static int record__pushfn(struct perf_mmap *map, void *to, void *bf, size_t size
{
struct record *rec = to;

+ if (record__comp_enabled(rec)) {
+ size = zstd_compress(rec->session, map->data, perf_mmap__mmap_len(map), bf, size);
+ bf = map->data;
+ }
+
rec->samples++;
return record__write(rec, map, bf, size);
}
@@ -778,6 +786,37 @@ static void record__adjust_affinity(struct record *rec, struct perf_mmap *map)
}
}

+static size_t process_comp_header(void *record, size_t increment)
+{
+ struct compressed_event *event = record;
+ size_t size = sizeof(*event);
+
+ if (increment) {
+ event->header.size += increment;
+ return increment;
+ }
+
+ event->header.type = PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED;
+ event->header.size = size;
+
+ return size;
+}
+
+static size_t zstd_compress(struct perf_session *session, void *dst, size_t dst_size,
+ void *src, size_t src_size)
+{
+ size_t compressed;
+ size_t max_record_size = PERF_SAMPLE_MAX_SIZE - sizeof(struct compressed_event) - 1;
+
+ compressed = zstd_compress_stream_to_records(&session->zstd_data, dst, dst_size, src, src_size,
+ max_record_size, process_comp_header);
+
+ session->bytes_transferred += src_size;
+ session->bytes_compressed += compressed;
+
+ return compressed;
+}
+
static int record__mmap_read_evlist(struct record *rec, struct perf_evlist *evlist,
bool overwrite, bool synch)
{
@@ -1225,6 +1264,14 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct record *rec, int argc, const char **argv)
fd = perf_data__fd(data);
rec->session = session;

+ if (zstd_init(&session->zstd_data, rec->opts.comp_level) < 0) {
+ pr_err("Compression initialization failed.\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ session->header.env.comp_type = PERF_COMP_ZSTD;
+ session->header.env.comp_level = rec->opts.comp_level;
+
record__init_features(rec);

if (rec->opts.use_clockid && rec->opts.clockid_res_ns)
@@ -1565,6 +1612,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct record *rec, int argc, const char **argv)
}

out_delete_session:
+ zstd_fini(&session->zstd_data);
perf_session__delete(session);

if (!opts->no_bpf_event)
@@ -2294,8 +2342,7 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)

if (rec->opts.nr_cblocks > nr_cblocks_max)
rec->opts.nr_cblocks = nr_cblocks_max;
- if (verbose > 0)
- pr_info("nr_cblocks: %d\n", rec->opts.nr_cblocks);
+ pr_debug("nr_cblocks: %d\n", rec->opts.nr_cblocks);

pr_debug("affinity: %s\n", affinity_tags[rec->opts.affinity]);
pr_debug("mmap flush: %d\n", rec->opts.mmap_flush);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.h b/tools/perf/util/session.h
index 0e14884f28b2..6c984c895924 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include "machine.h"
#include "data.h"
#include "ordered-events.h"
+#include "util/compress.h"
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/rbtree.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ struct perf_session {
struct perf_tool *tool;
u64 bytes_transferred;
u64 bytes_compressed;
+ struct zstd_data zstd_data;
};

struct perf_tool;
--
2.20.1