Re: [patch 2/2] procfs: provide stack information for threads V0.10

Johannes Weiner
2009-06-24T19:12:22Z

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:46:37PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:49:50PM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 24.06.2009, 17:20 +0200 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> > > > * Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > this is the newest version of the formaly named "detailed stack info"
> > > > > patch which give you a better overview of the userland application stack
> > > > > usage, especially for embedded linux.
> > > > >
> > > > > Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage
> > > > > which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value. But you get no
> > > > > information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads.
> > > > >
> > > > > There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which
> > > > > marks the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread
> > > > > stack xxxxxxxx]". xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack. This is a
> > > > > value information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack
> > > > > to the top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage.
> > > > >
> > > > > A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like:
> > > > >
> > > > > 08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/z
> > > > > 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/z
> > > > > 0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
> > > > > a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
> > > > > a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [thread stack: 001ff4b4]
> > > >
> > > > I have the same question as before: have you checked the use of that
> > > > field in tools/perf/builtin-record.c, and how your change will
> > > > impact that?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Good question... i have another one: What is
> > > tools/perf/builtin-record.c and where can i find it? Then i
> > > could check it.
> >
> > You can find it in a recent git tree from Linus.
> >
> > On the original question: builtin-record.c is unaffected by this
> > patch as this exact field will only be parsed if the mapping is
> > executable.
>
> A stack can be executable too. It is not common, but possible.

It also ignores the field if it doesn't start with a slash, so it's
even safe for executable stacks.

On a different note, I think that parser is not working for file
mappings with paths containing spaces. Not common, but possible :)

The below, sorry: untested, should fix this up. I think we don't
expect a slash in those lines except in a pathname, so looking for the
first slash should be okay. What do you think?

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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: tools/perf: fix filemap pathname parsing in /proc/pid/maps

Looking backward for the first space from the end of a line in
/proc/pid/maps does not find the start of the pathname of the mapped
file if it contains a space.

Since the only slashes we have in this file occur in the (absolute!)
pathname column of file mappings, looking for the first slash in a
line is a safe method to find the name.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index d7ebbd7..9b899ba 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -306,12 +306,11 @@ static void pid_synthesize_mmap_samples(pid_t pid)
continue;
pbf += n + 3;
if (*pbf == 'x') { /* vm_exec */
- char *execname = strrchr(bf, ' ');
+ char *execname = strchr(bf, '/');

- if (execname == NULL || execname[1] != '/')
+ if (execname == NULL)
continue;

- execname += 1;
size = strlen(execname);
execname[size - 1] = '\0'; /* Remove \n */
memcpy(mmap_ev.filename, execname, size);