[PATCH 1/3] perf tools: Use /proc/<PID>/task/<TID>/status for synthesis

[Namhyung Kim]

To save memory usage, it needs to reduce number of entries in the proc
filesystem.  It's using /proc/<PID>/task directory to traverse threads
in the process and then kernel creates /proc/<PID>/task/<TID> entries.

After that it checks the thread info using the /proc/<TID>/status file
rather than /proc/<PID>/task/<TID>/status.  As far as I can see, they
are the same and contain all the info we need.

Using the latter eliminates the unnecessary /proc/<TID> entry.  This
can be useful especially a large number of threads are used in the
system.  In my experiment around 1KB of memory on average was saved
for each thread (which is not a thread group leader).

To do this, pass both pid and tid to perf_event_prepare_comm() if it
knows them.  In case it doesn't know, passing 0 as pid will do the old
way.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c | 25 ++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c b/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
index 3a898520f05c..0cc998663b03 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ int perf_tool__process_synth_event(struct perf_tool *tool,
  * Assumes that the first 4095 bytes of /proc/pid/stat contains
  * the comm, tgid and ppid.
  */
-static int perf_event__get_comm_ids(pid_t pid, char *comm, size_t len,
+static int perf_event__get_comm_ids(pid_t pid, pid_t tid, char *comm, size_t len,
 				    pid_t *tgid, pid_t *ppid)
 {
 	char bf[4096];
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ static int perf_event__get_comm_ids(pid_t pid, char *comm, size_t len,
 	*tgid = -1;
 	*ppid = -1;
 
-	snprintf(bf, sizeof(bf), "/proc/%d/status", pid);
+	if (pid)
+		snprintf(bf, sizeof(bf), "/proc/%d/task/%d/status", pid, tid);
+	else
+		snprintf(bf, sizeof(bf), "/proc/%d/status", tid);
 
 	fd = open(bf, O_RDONLY);
 	if (fd < 0) {
@@ -93,7 +96,7 @@ static int perf_event__get_comm_ids(pid_t pid, char *comm, size_t len,
 	close(fd);
 	if (n <= 0) {
 		pr_warning("Couldn't get COMM, tigd and ppid for pid %d\n",
-			   pid);
+			   tid);
 		return -1;
 	}
 	bf[n] = '\0';
@@ -116,27 +119,27 @@ static int perf_event__get_comm_ids(pid_t pid, char *comm, size_t len,
 		memcpy(comm, name, size);
 		comm[size] = '\0';
 	} else {
-		pr_debug("Name: string not found for pid %d\n", pid);
+		pr_debug("Name: string not found for pid %d\n", tid);
 	}
 
 	if (tgids) {
 		tgids += 5;  /* strlen("Tgid:") */
 		*tgid = atoi(tgids);
 	} else {
-		pr_debug("Tgid: string not found for pid %d\n", pid);
+		pr_debug("Tgid: string not found for pid %d\n", tid);
 	}
 
 	if (ppids) {
 		ppids += 5;  /* strlen("PPid:") */
 		*ppid = atoi(ppids);
 	} else {
-		pr_debug("PPid: string not found for pid %d\n", pid);
+		pr_debug("PPid: string not found for pid %d\n", tid);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int perf_event__prepare_comm(union perf_event *event, pid_t pid,
+static int perf_event__prepare_comm(union perf_event *event, pid_t pid, pid_t tid,
 				    struct machine *machine,
 				    pid_t *tgid, pid_t *ppid)
 {
@@ -147,7 +150,7 @@ static int perf_event__prepare_comm(union perf_event *event, pid_t pid,
 	memset(&event->comm, 0, sizeof(event->comm));
 
 	if (machine__is_host(machine)) {
-		if (perf_event__get_comm_ids(pid, event->comm.comm,
+		if (perf_event__get_comm_ids(pid, tid, event->comm.comm,
 					     sizeof(event->comm.comm),
 					     tgid, ppid) != 0) {
 			return -1;
@@ -168,7 +171,7 @@ static int perf_event__prepare_comm(union perf_event *event, pid_t pid,
 	event->comm.header.size = (sizeof(event->comm) -
 				(sizeof(event->comm.comm) - size) +
 				machine->id_hdr_size);
-	event->comm.tid = pid;
+	event->comm.tid = tid;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -180,7 +183,7 @@ pid_t perf_event__synthesize_comm(struct perf_tool *tool,
 {
 	pid_t tgid, ppid;
 
-	if (perf_event__prepare_comm(event, pid, machine, &tgid, &ppid) != 0)
+	if (perf_event__prepare_comm(event, 0, pid, machine, &tgid, &ppid) != 0)
 		return -1;
 
 	if (perf_tool__process_synth_event(tool, event, machine, process) != 0)
@@ -746,7 +749,7 @@ static int __event__synthesize_thread(union perf_event *comm_event,
 			continue;
 
 		rc = -1;
-		if (perf_event__prepare_comm(comm_event, _pid, machine,
+		if (perf_event__prepare_comm(comm_event, pid, _pid, machine,
 					     &tgid, &ppid) != 0)
 			break;
 
-- 
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