From bb91a073ed124d3f6224d8ac37ecb536c01970c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Olsa Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 17:14:25 +0200 Subject: perf tools: Allow to build with -ltcmalloc By using "make TCMALLOC=1" you can enable perf to be build for usage with libtcmalloc.so (gperftools). Get heap profile (tools/perf directory): $ $ make TCMALLOC=1 DEBUG=1 $ HEAPPROFILE=/tmp/heapprof ./perf ... $ pprof ./perf /tmp/heapprof.000* (pprof) top Total: 2335.5 MB 1735.1 74.3% 74.3% 1735.1 74.3% memdup 402.0 17.2% 91.5% 402.0 17.2% zalloc 140.2 6.0% 97.5% 145.8 6.2% map__new 33.6 1.4% 98.9% 33.6 1.4% symbol__new 12.4 0.5% 99.5% 12.4 0.5% alloc_event 6.2 0.3% 99.7% 6.2 0.3% nsinfo__new 5.5 0.2% 100.0% 5.5 0.2% nsinfo__copy 0.3 0.0% 100.0% 0.3 0.0% dso__new 0.1 0.0% 100.0% 0.1 0.0% do_read_string 0.0 0.0% 100.0% 0.0 0.0% __GI__IO_file_doallocate See callstack: $ pprof --pdf ./perf /tmp/heapprof.00* > callstack.pdf $ pprof --web ./perf /tmp/heapprof.00* Committer testing: Install gperftools, on fedora: # dnf install gperftools-devel Then build: $ make TCMALLOC=1 DEBUG=1 -C tools/perf O=/tmp/build/perf install-bin Verify that it linked against the right library: $ ldd ~/bin/perf | grep tcma libtcmalloc.so.4 => /lib64/libtcmalloc.so.4 (0x00007fb2953a7000) $ Run 'perf trace' system wide for 1 minute: # HEAPPROFILE=/tmp/heapprof perf trace -a sleep 1m 59985.524 ( 0.006 ms): Web Content/20354 recvmsg(fd: 9, msg: 0x7ffee5fdafb0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) 59985.536 ( 0.005 ms): Web Content/20354 recvmsg(fd: 9, msg: 0x7ffee5fdafc0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) 59981.956 (10.143 ms): SCTP timer/21716 ... [continued]: select()) = 0 (Timeout) 59985.549 ( ): Web Content/20354 poll(ufds: 0x7f1df38af180, nfds: 3, timeout_msecs: 4294967295) ... 0.926 (59999.481 ms): sleep/29764 ... [continued]: nanosleep()) = 0 59992.133 ( ): SCTP timer/21716 select(tvp: 0x7ff5bf7fee80) ... 60000.477 ( 0.009 ms): sleep/29764 close(fd: 1) = 0 60000.493 ( 0.005 ms): sleep/29764 close(fd: 2) = 0 60000.514 ( ): sleep/29764 exit_group() = ? Dumping heap profile to /tmp/heapprof.0001.heap (Exiting, 3 MB in use) [root@quaco ~]# Install pprof: # dnf install pprof And run it: # pprof ~/bin/perf /tmp/heapprof.0001.heap Using local file /root/bin/perf. Using local file /tmp/heapprof.0001.heap. Welcome to pprof! For help, type 'help'. (pprof) top Total: 4.0 MB 1.7 42.0% 42.0% 2.2 54.1% map__new 0.9 23.3% 65.3% 0.9 23.3% zalloc 0.5 11.4% 76.7% 0.5 11.4% dso__new 0.2 5.6% 82.3% 0.3 8.5% trace__sys_enter 0.2 4.9% 87.2% 0.2 4.9% __GI___strdup 0.2 3.8% 91.0% 0.2 3.8% new_term 0.1 2.2% 93.2% 0.4 10.1% __perf_pmu__new_alias 0.0 1.0% 94.3% 0.0 1.2% event_read_fields 0.0 0.8% 95.1% 0.0 0.8% nsinfo__new 0.0 0.7% 95.8% 0.1 3.2% trace__read_syscall_info (pprof) Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191013151427.11941-2-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/Makefile.perf') diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf index a099a8a89447..8f1ba986d3bf 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf @@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ include ../scripts/utilities.mak # Define NO_LIBZSTD if you do not want support of Zstandard based runtime # trace compression in record mode. # +# Define TCMALLOC to enable tcmalloc heap profiling. +# # As per kernel Makefile, avoid funny character set dependencies unexport LC_ALL -- cgit v1.2.3