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When there're many lock contentions in the system, people sometimes want
to know who caused the contention, IOW who's the owner of the locks.
The -o/--lock-owner option tries to follow the lock owners for the
contended mutexes and rwsems from BPF, and then attributes the
contention time to the owner instead of the waiter. It's a best effort
approach to get the owner info at the time of the contention and doesn't
guarantee to have the precise tracking of owners if it's changing over
time.
Currently it only handles mutex and rwsem that have owner field in their
struct and it basically points to a task_struct that owns the lock at
the moment.
Technically its type is atomic_long_t and it comes with some LSB bits
used for other meanings. So it needs to clear them when casting it to a
pointer to task_struct.
Also the atomic_long_t is a typedef of the atomic 32 or 64 bit types
depending on arch which is a wrapper struct for the counter value. I'm
not aware of proper ways to access those kernel atomic types from BPF so
I just read the internal counter value directly. Please let me know if
there's a better way.
When -o/--lock-owner option is used, it goes to the task aggregation
mode like -t/--threads option does. However it cannot get the owner for
other lock types like spinlock and sometimes even for mutex.
$ sudo ./perf lock con -abo -- ./perf bench sched pipe
# Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark:
# Executed 1000000 pipe operations between two processes
Total time: 4.766 [sec]
4.766540 usecs/op
209795 ops/sec
contended total wait max wait avg wait pid owner
403 565.32 us 26.81 us 1.40 us -1 Unknown
4 27.99 us 8.57 us 7.00 us 1583145 sched-pipe
1 8.25 us 8.25 us 8.25 us 1583144 sched-pipe
1 2.03 us 2.03 us 2.03 us 5068 chrome
As you can see, the owner is unknown for the most cases. But if we
filter only for the mutex locks, it'd more likely get the onwers.
$ sudo ./perf lock con -abo -Y mutex -- ./perf bench sched pipe
# Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark:
# Executed 1000000 pipe operations between two processes
Total time: 4.910 [sec]
4.910435 usecs/op
203647 ops/sec
contended total wait max wait avg wait pid owner
2 15.50 us 8.29 us 7.75 us 1582852 sched-pipe
7 7.20 us 2.47 us 1.03 us -1 Unknown
1 6.74 us 6.74 us 6.74 us 1582851 sched-pipe
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230207002403.63590-3-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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