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authorTzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>2019-06-19 14:49:22 +0300
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2019-06-26 16:17:30 -0400
commit0bdae7b3fbcd1d6d06096584915b9770fd07ccb2 (patch)
tree97fa38a7971bbb0fcb834e6c8c00cfbfc9fc404b
parent2daa6666765f6def370a1e5723f719f7174d12e2 (diff)
downloadtrace-cmd-0bdae7b3fbcd1d6d06096584915b9770fd07ccb2.tar.gz
trace-cmd: Do not free pages from the lookup table in struct cpu_data in case trace file is loaded.
A major speed regression in trace-cmd v2.8 is reported by Johannes Berg when parsing a huge trace.dat file: "I have a ~1.7G file with just under 620k events (not exactly big by our standards), and parsing speed (with -N to disable plugins) goes from ~4.5 seconds on commit 1ad32c24746 to >>4.5 minutes (I aborted there) on master. I was talking to Steven about another issue, and he pointed me to commit c2fc2bc296f7. Reverting that on master makes it take ~2 seconds, so that'd actually be an improvement." Proposed solution: do not free pages from "struct page **pages" lookup table in struct cpu_data, in case a trace file is loaded. This reverts the behavior for this use case, as it was before commit c2fc2bc296f7. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203411 Link: http://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20190619114922.3169-1-tz.stoyanov@gmail.com Fixes: c2fc2bc296f7 ("trace-cmd: Fix crash when trace-cmd is executed with args profile -F sleep 1") Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Tested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-rw-r--r--lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c20
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c
index 61566bad..654101f5 100644
--- a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c
+++ b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c
@@ -986,15 +986,17 @@ static void __free_page(struct tracecmd_input *handle, struct page *page)
free(page);
- for (index = cpu_data->nr_pages - 1; index > 0; index--)
- if (cpu_data->pages[index])
- break;
- if (index < (cpu_data->nr_pages - 1)) {
- pages = realloc(cpu_data->pages, (index + 1) * sizeof(*cpu_data->pages));
- if (!pages)
- return;
- cpu_data->pages = pages;
- cpu_data->nr_pages = index + 1;
+ if (handle->use_pipe) {
+ for (index = cpu_data->nr_pages - 1; index > 0; index--)
+ if (cpu_data->pages[index])
+ break;
+ if (index < (cpu_data->nr_pages - 1)) {
+ pages = realloc(cpu_data->pages, (index + 1) * sizeof(*cpu_data->pages));
+ if (!pages)
+ return;
+ cpu_data->pages = pages;
+ cpu_data->nr_pages = index + 1;
+ }
}
}