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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@@ -745,19 +745,30 @@ static int set_regs_in_dict(PyObject *dict,
const char *arch = perf_env__arch(evsel__env(evsel));
int size = (__sw_hweight64(attr->sample_regs_intr) * MAX_REG_SIZE) + 1;
char *bf = malloc(size);
if (!bf)
return -1;
char *bf = NULL;
regs_map(&sample->intr_regs, attr->sample_regs_intr, arch, bf, size);
if (sample->intr_regs) {
bf = malloc(size);
if (!bf)
return -1;
pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict, "iregs",
_PyUnicode_FromString(bf));
regs_map(sample->intr_regs, attr->sample_regs_intr, arch, bf, size);
regs_map(&sample->user_regs, attr->sample_regs_user, arch, bf, size);
pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict, "iregs",
_PyUnicode_FromString(bf));
}
pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict, "uregs",
_PyUnicode_FromString(bf));
if (sample->user_regs) {
if (!bf) {
bf = malloc(size);
if (!bf)
return -1;
}
regs_map(sample->user_regs, attr->sample_regs_user, arch, bf, size);
pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict, "uregs",
_PyUnicode_FromString(bf));
}
free(bf);
return 0;