perf sample: Make user_regs and intr_regs optional

The struct dump_regs contains 512 bytes of cache_regs, meaning the two
values in perf_sample contribute 1088 bytes of its total 1384 bytes
size. Initializing this much memory has a cost reported by Tavian
Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com> as about 2.5% when running `perf
script --itrace=i0`:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d841b97b3ad2ca8bcab07e4293375fb7c32dfce7.1736618095.git.tavianator@tavianator.com/

Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> replied that the zero
initialization was necessary and couldn't simply be removed.

This patch aims to strike a middle ground of still zeroing the
perf_sample, but removing 79% of its size by make user_regs and
intr_regs optional pointers to zalloc-ed memory. To support the
allocation accessors are created for user_regs and intr_regs. To
support correct cleanup perf_sample__init and perf_sample__exit
functions are created and added throughout the code base.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250113194345.1537821-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Ian Rogers
2025-01-13 11:43:45 -08:00
committed by Namhyung Kim
parent 08d9e88348
commit dc6d2bc2d8
34 changed files with 448 additions and 191 deletions

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@@ -270,6 +270,12 @@ static PyMemberDef pyrf_sample_event__members[] = {
{ .name = NULL, },
};
static void pyrf_sample_event__delete(struct pyrf_event *pevent)
{
perf_sample__exit(&pevent->sample);
Py_TYPE(pevent)->tp_free((PyObject*)pevent);
}
static PyObject *pyrf_sample_event__repr(const struct pyrf_event *pevent)
{
PyObject *ret;
@@ -428,6 +434,9 @@ static int pyrf_event__setup_types(void)
pyrf_sample_event__type.tp_new =
pyrf_context_switch_event__type.tp_new =
pyrf_throttle_event__type.tp_new = PyType_GenericNew;
pyrf_sample_event__type.tp_dealloc = (destructor)pyrf_sample_event__delete,
err = PyType_Ready(&pyrf_mmap_event__type);
if (err < 0)
goto out;