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perf symbols: Fix slowness due to -ffunction-section
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Perf can take minutes to parse an image when -ffunction-section is used.
This is especially true with the kernel image when it is compiled this
way, which is the arm64 default since the patcheset "Enable deadcode
elimination at link time".

Perf organize maps using a rbtree. Whenever perf finds a new symbols, it
first searches this rbtree for the map it belongs to, by strcmp()'aring
section names.  When it finds the map with the right name, it uses it to
add the symbol. With a usual image there aren't so many maps but when
using -ffunction-section there's basically one map per function.  With
the kernel image that's north of 40,000 maps. For most symbols perf has
to parses the entire rbtree to eventually create a new map and add it.
Consequently perf spends most of the time browsing a rbtree that keeps
getting larger.

This performance fix introduces a secondary rbtree that indexes maps
based on the section name.

Signed-off-by: Eric Saint-Etienne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dave Kleikamp <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Aldridge <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rob Gardner <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
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Eric Saint-Etienne authored and acmel committed Nov 22, 2018
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27 changes: 27 additions & 0 deletions tools/perf/util/map.c
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#include "unwind.h"

static void __maps__insert(struct maps *maps, struct map *map);
static void __maps__insert_name(struct maps *maps, struct map *map);

static inline int is_anon_memory(const char *filename, u32 flags)
{
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static void maps__init(struct maps *maps)
{
maps->entries = RB_ROOT;
maps->names = RB_ROOT;
init_rwsem(&maps->lock);
}

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static void __map_groups__insert(struct map_groups *mg, struct map *map)
{
__maps__insert(&mg->maps, map);
__maps__insert_name(&mg->maps, map);
map->groups = mg;
}

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map__get(map);
}

static void __maps__insert_name(struct maps *maps, struct map *map)
{
struct rb_node **p = &maps->names.rb_node;
struct rb_node *parent = NULL;
struct map *m;
int rc;

while (*p != NULL) {
parent = *p;
m = rb_entry(parent, struct map, rb_node_name);
rc = strcmp(m->dso->short_name, map->dso->short_name);
if (rc < 0)
p = &(*p)->rb_left;
else if (rc > 0)
p = &(*p)->rb_right;
else
return;
}
rb_link_node(&map->rb_node_name, parent, p);
rb_insert_color(&map->rb_node_name, &maps->names);
map__get(map);
}

void maps__insert(struct maps *maps, struct map *map)
{
down_write(&maps->lock);
__maps__insert(maps, map);
__maps__insert_name(maps, map);
up_write(&maps->lock);
}

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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions tools/perf/util/map.h
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struct rb_node rb_node;
struct list_head node;
};
struct rb_node rb_node_name;
u64 start;
u64 end;
bool erange_warned;
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struct maps {
struct rb_root entries;
struct rb_root names;
struct rw_semaphore lock;
};

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15 changes: 13 additions & 2 deletions tools/perf/util/symbol.c
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{
struct maps *maps = &mg->maps;
struct map *map;
struct rb_node *node;

down_read(&maps->lock);

for (map = maps__first(maps); map; map = map__next(map)) {
if (map->dso && strcmp(map->dso->short_name, name) == 0)
for (node = maps->names.rb_node; node; ) {
int rc;

map = rb_entry(node, struct map, rb_node_name);

rc = strcmp(map->dso->short_name, name);
if (rc < 0)
node = node->rb_left;
else if (rc > 0)
node = node->rb_right;
else

goto out_unlock;
}

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