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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/5] perf record: mmap output file - v5
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:11:21PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Dunno.. it _should_ all work. Try it and see what it does.. Once the
> > > events are bigger than a page things might get 'interesting' though.
>
> Which could be the case with call-graph recording, right?

Not typically, I think we're limiting call graphs to 127 u64, which is
~1k. Maybe you can blow the single page if you also do a large
top-of-stack copy for dwarf/unwind nonsense.

> > one option here is not allow page faults and system wide system calls.
> > system wide tracing needs mmap; page faults for a task can use write().
> > I left that option in case something like this came up.
>
> So maybe splice() sounds like the right long term solution after all? :-/

Right until you put a tracepoint (kprobe) somewhere in whatever function
is used to transfer a single page into/from a splice pipe.

You can always screw yourself over using this stuff, no exceptions.


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