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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2008-11-12 00:14:39 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-12 11:52:02 +0100
commit1f0d69a9fc815db82f15722bf05227190b1d714d (patch)
tree21e0a9664fd47827d9168938a965b39b85b6e287 /include
parentcb9382e5a94e54d0356d730954396c746ae66d6e (diff)
tracing: profile likely and unlikely annotations
Impact: new unlikely/likely profiler Andrew Morton recently suggested having an in-kernel way to profile likely and unlikely macros. This patch achieves that goal. When configured, every(*) likely and unlikely macro gets a counter attached to it. When the condition is hit, the hit and misses of that condition are recorded. These numbers can later be retrieved by: /debugfs/tracing/profile_likely - All likely markers /debugfs/tracing/profile_unlikely - All unlikely markers. # cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | head correct incorrect % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 2167 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 832 0 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 804 2670 0 0 IS_ERR err.h 34 71230 5693 7 __switch_to process_64.c 673 76919 0 0 __switch_to process_64.c 639 43184 33743 43 __switch_to process_64.c 624 12740 64181 83 __switch_to process_64.c 594 12740 64174 83 __switch_to process_64.c 590 # cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | \ awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }' |head -20 44963 35259 43 __switch_to process_64.c 624 12762 67454 84 __switch_to process_64.c 594 12762 67447 84 __switch_to process_64.c 590 1478 595 28 syscall_get_error syscall.h 51 0 2821 100 syscall_trace_leave ptrace.c 1567 0 1 100 native_smp_prepare_cpus smpboot.c 1237 86338 265881 75 calc_delta_fair sched_fair.c 408 210410 108540 34 calc_delta_mine sched.c 1267 0 54550 100 sched_info_queued sched_stats.h 222 51899 66435 56 pick_next_task_fair sched_fair.c 1422 6 10 62 yield_task_fair sched_fair.c 982 7325 2692 26 rt_policy sched.c 144 0 1270 100 pre_schedule_rt sched_rt.c 1261 1268 48073 97 pick_next_task_rt sched_rt.c 884 0 45181 100 sched_info_dequeued sched_stats.h 177 0 15 100 sched_move_task sched.c 8700 0 15 100 sched_move_task sched.c 8690 53167 33217 38 schedule sched.c 4457 0 80208 100 sched_info_switch sched_stats.h 270 30585 49631 61 context_switch sched.c 2619 # cat /debug/tracing/profile_likely | awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }' 39900 36577 47 pick_next_task sched.c 4397 20824 15233 42 switch_mm mmu_context_64.h 18 0 7 100 __cancel_work_timer workqueue.c 560 617 66484 99 clocksource_adjust timekeeping.c 456 0 346340 100 audit_syscall_exit auditsc.c 1570 38 347350 99 audit_get_context auditsc.c 732 0 345244 100 audit_syscall_entry auditsc.c 1541 38 1017 96 audit_free auditsc.c 1446 0 1090 100 audit_alloc auditsc.c 862 2618 1090 29 audit_alloc auditsc.c 858 0 6 100 move_masked_irq migration.c 9 1 198 99 probe_sched_wakeup trace_sched_switch.c 58 2 2 50 probe_wakeup trace_sched_wakeup.c 227 0 2 100 probe_wakeup_sched_switch trace_sched_wakeup.c 144 4514 2090 31 __grab_cache_page filemap.c 2149 12882 228786 94 mapping_unevictable pagemap.h 50 4 11 73 __flush_cpu_slab slub.c 1466 627757 330451 34 slab_free slub.c 1731 2959 61245 95 dentry_lru_del_init dcache.c 153 946 1217 56 load_elf_binary binfmt_elf.c 904 102 82 44 disk_put_part genhd.h 206 1 1 50 dst_gc_task dst.c 82 0 19 100 tcp_mss_split_point tcp_output.c 1126 As you can see by the above, there's a bit of work to do in rethinking the use of some unlikelys and likelys. Note: the unlikely case had 71 hits that were more than 25%. Note: After submitting my first version of this patch, Andrew Morton showed me a version written by Daniel Walker, where I picked up the following ideas from: 1) Using __builtin_constant_p to avoid profiling fixed values. 2) Using __FILE__ instead of instruction pointers. 3) Using the preprocessor to stop all profiling of likely annotations from vsyscall_64.c. Thanks to Andrew Morton, Arjan van de Ven, Theodore Tso and Ingo Molnar for their feed back on this patch. (*) Not ever unlikely is recorded, those that are used by vsyscalls (a few of them) had to have profiling disabled. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h14
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler.h61
2 files changed, 72 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 80744606bad..e10beb5335c 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -45,6 +45,17 @@
#define MCOUNT_REC()
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE
+#define LIKELY_PROFILE() VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_likely_profile) = .; \
+ *(_ftrace_likely) \
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop_likely_profile) = .; \
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_unlikely_profile) = .; \
+ *(_ftrace_unlikely) \
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop_unlikely_profile) = .;
+#else
+#define LIKELY_PROFILE()
+#endif
+
/* .data section */
#define DATA_DATA \
*(.data) \
@@ -62,7 +73,8 @@
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___markers) = .; \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___tracepoints) = .; \
*(__tracepoints) \
- VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___tracepoints) = .;
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___tracepoints) = .; \
+ LIKELY_PROFILE()
#define RO_DATA(align) \
. = ALIGN((align)); \
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 98115d9d04d..935e30cfaf3 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -59,8 +59,65 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
* specific implementations come from the above header files
*/
-#define likely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)
-#define unlikely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE
+struct ftrace_likely_data {
+ const char *func;
+ const char *file;
+ unsigned line;
+ unsigned long correct;
+ unsigned long incorrect;
+};
+void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val, int expect);
+
+#define likely_notrace(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)
+#define unlikely_notrace(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
+
+#define likely_check(x) ({ \
+ int ______r; \
+ static struct ftrace_likely_data \
+ __attribute__((__aligned__(4))) \
+ __attribute__((section("_ftrace_likely"))) \
+ ______f = { \
+ .func = __func__, \
+ .file = __FILE__, \
+ .line = __LINE__, \
+ }; \
+ ______f.line = __LINE__; \
+ ______r = likely_notrace(x); \
+ ftrace_likely_update(&______f, ______r, 1); \
+ ______r; \
+ })
+#define unlikely_check(x) ({ \
+ int ______r; \
+ static struct ftrace_likely_data \
+ __attribute__((__aligned__(4))) \
+ __attribute__((section("_ftrace_unlikely"))) \
+ ______f = { \
+ .func = __func__, \
+ .file = __FILE__, \
+ .line = __LINE__, \
+ }; \
+ ______f.line = __LINE__; \
+ ______r = unlikely_notrace(x); \
+ ftrace_likely_update(&______f, ______r, 0); \
+ ______r; \
+ })
+
+/*
+ * Using __builtin_constant_p(x) to ignore cases where the return
+ * value is always the same. This idea is taken from a similar patch
+ * written by Daniel Walker.
+ */
+# ifndef likely
+# define likely(x) (__builtin_constant_p(x) ? !!(x) : likely_check(x))
+# endif
+# ifndef unlikely
+# define unlikely(x) (__builtin_constant_p(x) ? !!(x) : unlikely_check(x))
+# endif
+#else
+# define likely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)
+# define unlikely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
+#endif
/* Optimization barrier */
#ifndef barrier