Re: [RFC PATCH v3 6/7] scripts/sorttable: Add ORC unwind tables sort concurrently

[Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>]

On 2019/11/16 01:24, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Nov 15, 2019, at 1:43 AM, Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>>> On 2019/11/15 17:07, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 02:47:49PM +0800, Shile Zhang wrote:
>>>>
>>>> +#if defined(SORTTABLE_64) && defined(UNWINDER_ORC_ENABLED)
>>>> +/* ORC unwinder only support X86_64 */
>>>> +#include <errno.h>
>>>> +#include <pthread.h>
>>>> +#include <linux/types.h>
>>>> +
>>>> +#define ORC_REG_UNDEFINED    0
>>>> +#define ERRSTRING_MAXSZ        256
>>>> +
>>>> +struct orc_entry {
>>>> +    s16        sp_offset;
>>>> +    s16        bp_offset;
>>>> +    unsigned    sp_reg:4;
>>>> +    unsigned    bp_reg:4;
>>>> +    unsigned    type:2;
>>>> +    unsigned    end:1;
>>>> +} __attribute__((packed));
>>>> +
>>>> +struct orctable_info {
>>>> +    size_t    orc_size;
>>>> +    size_t    orc_ip_size;
>>>> +} orctable;
>>> There's ./arch/x86/include/asm/orc_types.h for this. Please don't
>>> duplicate. objtool uses that same header.
>> Good catch! Thanks for your kindly reminder! I'll remove it.
>>>> +/**
>>>> + * sort - sort an array of elements
>>>> + * @base: pointer to data to sort
>>>> + * @num: number of elements
>>>> + * @size: size of each element
>>>> + * @cmp_func: pointer to comparison function
>>>> + * @swap_func: pointer to swap function
>>>> + *
>>>> + * This function does a heapsort on the given array. You may provide a
>>>> + * swap_func function optimized to your element type.
>>>> + *
>>>> + * Sorting time is O(n log n) both on average and worst-case. While
>>>> + * qsort is about 20% faster on average, it suffers from exploitable
>>>> + * O(n*n) worst-case behavior and extra memory requirements that make
>>>> + * it less suitable for kernel use.
>>>> + *
>>>> + * This code token out of /lib/sort.c.
>>>> + */
>>>> +static void sort(void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
>>>> +      int (*cmp_func)(const void *, const void *),
>>>> +      void (*swap_func)(void *, void *, int size))
>>>> +{
>>>> +    /* pre-scale counters for performance */
>>>> +    int i = (num/2 - 1) * size, n = num * size, c, r;
>>>> +
>>>> +    /* heapify */
>>>> +    for ( ; i >= 0; i -= size) {
>>>> +        for (r = i; r * 2 + size < n; r  = c) {
>>>> +            c = r * 2 + size;
>>>> +            if (c < n - size &&
>>>> +                    cmp_func(base + c, base + c + size) < 0)
>>>> +                c += size;
>>>> +            if (cmp_func(base + r, base + c) >= 0)
>>>> +                break;
>>>> +            swap_func(base + r, base + c, size);
>>>> +        }
>>>> +    }
>>>> +
>>>> +    /* sort */
>>>> +    for (i = n - size; i > 0; i -= size) {
>>>> +        swap_func(base, base + i, size);
>>>> +        for (r = 0; r * 2 + size < i; r = c) {
>>>> +            c = r * 2 + size;
>>>> +            if (c < i - size &&
>>>> +                    cmp_func(base + c, base + c + size) < 0)
>>>> +                c += size;
>>>> +            if (cmp_func(base + r, base + c) >= 0)
>>>> +                break;
>>>> +            swap_func(base + r, base + c, size);
>>>> +        }
>>>> +    }
>>>> +}
>>> Do we really need to copy the heapsort implementation? That is, why not
>>> use libc's qsort() ? This is userspace after all.
>> Yes, I think qsort is better choice than copy-paste here. But qsort does not support customized swap func, which is needed for ORC unwind swap two tables together.
>> I think it's hard to do with qsort, so I used sort same with original orc unwind table sort.
> One solution is to make an array of indices 0, 1, 2, etc, and sort that using a comparison function that compares i,j by actually comparing source[i], source[j]. (Or use pointers, but indices are probably faster on a 64-bit machine if you can use 32-bit indices.) Then, after sorting, permute the original array using the now-sorted indices. In the case where swapping is expensive, this is actually faster, since it does exactly n moves instead of O(n log n).

Hi, Andy,

Thanks for your suggestion!
It's works, qsort is faster than heap sort, sort time down from 70ms to 
20ms.

I'll update in next version.
Thanks again!