Re: [PATCH RESEND] perf lock contention: Account contending locks too

[Namhyung Kim]

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On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 3:07 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently it accounts the contention using delta between timestamps in
> lock:contention_begin and lock:contention_end tracepoints.  But it means
> the lock should see the both events during the monitoring period.
>
> Actually there are 4 cases that happen with the monitoring:
>
>                 monitoring period
>             /                       \
>             |                       |
>  1:  B------+-----------------------+--------E
>  2:    B----+-------------E         |
>  3:         |           B-----------+----E
>  4:         |     B-------------E   |
>             |                       |
>             t0                      t1
>
> where B and E mean contention BEGIN and END, respectively.  So it only
> accounts the case 4 for now.  It seems there's no way to handle the case
> 1.  The case 2 might be handled if it saved the timestamp (t0), but it
> lacks the information from the B notably the flags which shows the lock
> types.  Also it could be a nested lock which it currently ignores.  So
> I think we should ignore the case 2.
>
> However we can handle the case 3 if we save the timestamp (t1) at the
> end of the period.  And then it can iterate the map entries in the
> userspace and update the lock stat accordinly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c         | 116 ++++++++++++++++++
>  .../perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_contention.bpf.c  |  16 +--
>  tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_data.h          |   7 ++
>  3 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c
> index 31ff19afc20c..d6bafd9a3955 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c
> @@ -179,6 +179,119 @@ int lock_contention_prepare(struct lock_contention *con)
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> +static void mark_end_timestamp(void)
> +{
> +       DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_test_run_opts, opts,
> +               .flags = BPF_F_TEST_RUN_ON_CPU,
> +       );
> +       int prog_fd = bpf_program__fd(skel->progs.end_timestamp);
> +
> +       bpf_prog_test_run_opts(prog_fd, &opts);
> +}
> +
> +static void update_lock_stat(int map_fd, int pid, u64 end_ts,
> +                            enum lock_aggr_mode aggr_mode,
> +                            struct tstamp_data *ts_data)
> +{
> +       u64 delta;
> +       struct contention_key stat_key = {};
> +       struct contention_data stat_data;
> +
> +       if (ts_data->timestamp >= end_ts)
> +               return;
> +
> +       delta = end_ts - ts_data->timestamp;
> +
> +       switch (aggr_mode) {
> +       case LOCK_AGGR_CALLER:
> +               stat_key.stack_id = ts_data->stack_id;
> +               break;
> +       case LOCK_AGGR_TASK:
> +               stat_key.pid = pid;
> +               break;
> +       case LOCK_AGGR_ADDR:
> +               stat_key.lock_addr_or_cgroup = ts_data->lock;
> +               break;
> +       case LOCK_AGGR_CGROUP:
> +               /* TODO */
> +               return;
> +       default:
> +               return;
> +       }
> +
> +       if (bpf_map_lookup_elem(map_fd, &stat_key, &stat_data) < 0)
> +               return;
> +
> +       stat_data.total_time += delta;
> +       stat_data.count++;
> +
> +       if (delta > stat_data.max_time)
> +               stat_data.max_time = delta;
> +       if (delta < stat_data.min_time)
> +               stat_data.min_time = delta;
> +
> +       bpf_map_update_elem(map_fd, &stat_key, &stat_data, BPF_EXIST);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Account entries in the tstamp map (which didn't see the corresponding
> + * lock:contention_end tracepoint) using end_ts.
> + */
> +static void account_end_timestamp(struct lock_contention *con)
> +{
> +       int ts_fd, stat_fd;
> +       int *prev_key, key;
> +       u64 end_ts = skel->bss->end_ts;
> +       int total_cpus;
> +       enum lock_aggr_mode aggr_mode = con->aggr_mode;
> +       struct tstamp_data ts_data, *cpu_data;
> +
> +       /* Iterate per-task tstamp map (key = TID) */
> +       ts_fd = bpf_map__fd(skel->maps.tstamp);
> +       stat_fd = bpf_map__fd(skel->maps.lock_stat);
> +
> +       prev_key = NULL;
> +       while (!bpf_map_get_next_key(ts_fd, prev_key, &key)) {
> +               if (bpf_map_lookup_elem(ts_fd, &key, &ts_data) == 0) {
> +                       int pid = key;
> +
> +                       if (aggr_mode == LOCK_AGGR_TASK && con->owner)
> +                               pid = ts_data.flags;
> +
> +                       update_lock_stat(stat_fd, pid, end_ts, aggr_mode,
> +                                        &ts_data);
> +               }
> +
> +               prev_key = &key;
> +       }
> +
> +       /* Now it'll check per-cpu tstamp map which doesn't have TID. */
> +       if (aggr_mode == LOCK_AGGR_TASK || aggr_mode == LOCK_AGGR_CGROUP)
> +               return;
> +
> +       total_cpus = cpu__max_cpu().cpu;
> +       ts_fd = bpf_map__fd(skel->maps.tstamp_cpu);
> +
> +       cpu_data = calloc(total_cpus, sizeof(*cpu_data));
> +       if (cpu_data == NULL)
> +               return;
> +
> +       prev_key = NULL;
> +       while (!bpf_map_get_next_key(ts_fd, prev_key, &key)) {
> +               if (bpf_map_lookup_elem(ts_fd, &key, cpu_data) < 0)
> +                       goto next;
> +
> +               for (int i = 0; i < total_cpus; i++) {
> +                       update_lock_stat(stat_fd, -1, end_ts, aggr_mode,
> +                                        &cpu_data[i]);
> +               }
> +
> +next:
> +               prev_key = &key;
> +       }
> +       free(cpu_data);
> +}
> +
>  int lock_contention_start(void)
>  {
>         skel->bss->enabled = 1;
> @@ -188,6 +301,7 @@ int lock_contention_start(void)
>  int lock_contention_stop(void)
>  {
>         skel->bss->enabled = 0;
> +       mark_end_timestamp();
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> @@ -301,6 +415,8 @@ int lock_contention_read(struct lock_contention *con)
>         if (stack_trace == NULL)
>                 return -1;
>
> +       account_end_timestamp(con);
> +
>         if (con->aggr_mode == LOCK_AGGR_TASK) {
>                 struct thread *idle = __machine__findnew_thread(machine,
>                                                                 /*pid=*/0,
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_contention.bpf.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_contention.bpf.c
> index 95cd8414f6ef..fb54bd38e7d0 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_contention.bpf.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_contention.bpf.c
> @@ -19,13 +19,6 @@
>  #define LCB_F_PERCPU   (1U << 4)
>  #define LCB_F_MUTEX    (1U << 5)
>
> -struct tstamp_data {
> -       __u64 timestamp;
> -       __u64 lock;
> -       __u32 flags;
> -       __s32 stack_id;
> -};
> -
>  /* callstack storage  */
>  struct {
>         __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_STACK_TRACE);
> @@ -140,6 +133,8 @@ int perf_subsys_id = -1;
>  /* determine the key of lock stat */
>  int aggr_mode;
>
> +__u64 end_ts;
> +
>  /* error stat */
>  int task_fail;
>  int stack_fail;
> @@ -559,4 +554,11 @@ int BPF_PROG(collect_lock_syms)
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> +SEC("raw_tp/bpf_test_finish")
> +int BPF_PROG(end_timestamp)
> +{
> +       end_ts = bpf_ktime_get_ns();
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +
>  char LICENSE[] SEC("license") = "Dual BSD/GPL";
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_data.h b/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_data.h
> index 08482daf61be..36af11faad03 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_data.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/lock_data.h
> @@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
>  #ifndef UTIL_BPF_SKEL_LOCK_DATA_H
>  #define UTIL_BPF_SKEL_LOCK_DATA_H
>
> +struct tstamp_data {
> +       u64 timestamp;
> +       u64 lock;
> +       u32 flags;
> +       u32 stack_id;
> +};
> +
>  struct contention_key {
>         u32 stack_id;
>         u32 pid;
> --
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