Messages in this thread | | | From | Tomáš Trnka <> | Subject | perf top -p broken for multithreaded processes since 5.19 | Date | Fri, 02 Sep 2022 16:46:45 +0200 |
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Hello,
A bug in perf v5.19 and newer completely breaks monitoring multithreaded processes using "perf top -p". The tool fails to start with "Failed to mmap with 22 (Invalid argument)". It still seems to work fine on single-threaded processes. "perf record" is also unaffected.
I have bisected the issue to the following commit:
commit ae4f8ae16a07896403c90305d4b9be27f657c1fc Author: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Date: Tue May 24 10:54:31 2022 +0300
libperf evlist: Allow mixing per-thread and per-cpu mmaps
mmap_per_evsel() will skip events that do not match the CPU, so all CPUs can be iterated in any case.
The issue can be easily reproduced using the following test:
$ python - <<EOF import time import threading th = threading.Thread(target=time.sleep, args=(3600,)) th.start() th.join() EOF
stracing "perf top -p $(pgrep python)" yields this:
145184 perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, size=PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER7, config=PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES, sample_freq=4000, sample_type=PERF_SAMPLE_IP|PERF_SAMPLE_TID|PERF_SAMPLE_TIME|PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD, read_format=PERF_FORMAT_ID, disabled=1, exclude_kernel=1, mmap=1, comm=1, freq=1, task=1, precise_ip=0 /* arbitrary skid */, sample_id_all=1, mmap2=1, comm_exec=1, ksymbol=1, ...}, 92061, -1, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC) = 3 > tools/perf/perf(evsel__open_cpu+0x287) [0x4c8ad7] > tools/perf/perf(cmd_top+0x1996) [0x439b26] > tools/perf/perf(run_builtin+0x68) [0x4a91f8] > tools/perf/perf(main+0x645) [0x40cad5] 145184 perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, size=PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER7, config=PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES, sample_freq=4000, sample_type=PERF_SAMPLE_IP|PERF_SAMPLE_TID|PERF_SAMPLE_TIME|PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD, read_format=PERF_FORMAT_ID, disabled=1, exclude_kernel=1, mmap=1, comm=1, freq=1, task=1, precise_ip=0 /* arbitrary skid */, sample_id_all=1, mmap2=1, comm_exec=1, ksymbol=1, ...}, 104619, -1, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC) = 5 > tools/perf/perf(evsel__open_cpu+0x287) [0x4c8ad7] > tools/perf/perf(cmd_top+0x1996) [0x439b26] > tools/perf/perf(run_builtin+0x68) [0x4a91f8] > tools/perf/perf(main+0x645) [0x40cad5] …(snip)… 145184 ioctl(5, PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT, 3) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) > tools/perf/perf(perf_evlist__mmap_ops+0x2cf) [0x5d497f] > tools/perf/perf(evlist__mmap+0xa7) [0x4c09b7] > perf/perf(cmd_top+0x1ccd) [0x439e5d] > tools/perf/perf(run_builtin+0x68) [0x4a91f8] > tools/perf/perf(main+0x645) [0x40cad5]
Best regards,
Tomáš -- Tomáš Trnka Software for Chemistry & Materials B.V.
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