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The 'perf lock contention' program currently shows the caller of the locks
as __traceiter_contention_begin+0x??. This caller can be ignored, as it is
from the traceiter itself. Instead, it should show the real callers for
the locks.
When fiddling with the --stack-skip parameter, the actual callers for
the locks start to show up. However, just ignore the
__traceiter_contention_begin and the __traceiter_contention_end symbols
so the actual callers will show up.
Before this patch is applied:
sudo perf lock con -a -b -- sleep 3
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
8 2.33 s 2.28 s 291.18 ms rwlock:W __traceiter_contention_begin+0x44
4 2.33 s 2.28 s 582.35 ms rwlock:W __traceiter_contention_begin+0x44
7 140.30 ms 46.77 ms 20.04 ms rwlock:W __traceiter_contention_begin+0x44
2 63.35 ms 33.76 ms 31.68 ms mutex trace_contention_begin+0x84
2 46.74 ms 46.73 ms 23.37 ms rwlock:W __traceiter_contention_begin+0x44
1 13.54 us 13.54 us 13.54 us mutex trace_contention_begin+0x84
1 3.67 us 3.67 us 3.67 us rwsem:R __traceiter_contention_begin+0x44
Before this patch is applied - using --stack-skip 5
sudo perf lock con --stack-skip 5 -a -b -- sleep 3
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
2 2.24 s 2.24 s 1.12 s rwlock:W do_epoll_wait+0x5a0
4 1.65 s 824.21 ms 412.08 ms rwlock:W do_exit+0x338
2 824.35 ms 824.29 ms 412.17 ms spinlock get_signal+0x108
2 824.14 ms 824.14 ms 412.07 ms rwlock:W release_task+0x68
1 25.22 ms 25.22 ms 25.22 ms mutex cgroup_kn_lock_live+0x58
1 24.71 us 24.71 us 24.71 us spinlock do_exit+0x44
1 22.04 us 22.04 us 22.04 us rwsem:R lock_mm_and_find_vma+0xb0
After this patch is applied:
sudo ./perf lock con -a -b -- sleep 3
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
4 4.13 s 2.07 s 1.03 s rwlock:W release_task+0x68
2 2.07 s 2.07 s 1.03 s rwlock:R mm_update_next_owner+0x50
2 2.07 s 2.07 s 1.03 s rwlock:W do_exit+0x338
1 41.56 ms 41.56 ms 41.56 ms mutex cgroup_kn_lock_live+0x58
2 36.12 us 18.83 us 18.06 us rwlock:W do_exit+0x338
Signed-off-by: Anne Macedo <retpolanne@posteo.net>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319143629.3422590-1-retpolanne@posteo.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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