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From:   Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
To:     <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Optimize event type allocation with IDA
Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:36:28 +0800
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On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 22:26:50 +0900,
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 11:23:52 +0800
> Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com> wrote:
> 
> > After commit 060fa5c83e67 ("tracing/events: reuse trace event ids after
> >  overflow"), trace events with dynamic type are linked up in list
> > 'ftrace_event_list' through field 'trace_event.list'. Then when max
> > event type number used up, it's possible to reuse type number of some
> > freed one by traversing 'ftrace_event_list'.
> > 
> > As instead, using IDA to manage available type numbers can make codes
> > simpler and then the field 'trace_event.list' can be dropped.
> > 
> > Since 'struct trace_event' is used in static tracepoints, drop
> > 'trace_event.list' can make vmlinux smaller. Local test with about 2000
> > tracepoints, vmlinux reduced about 64KB:
> >   before：-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 76669448 Nov  8 17:14 vmlinux
> >   after： -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 76604176 Nov  8 17:15 vmlinux
> > 
> 
> This looks good to me, I just have one comment below.

Thanks!

> 
> > Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/trace_events.h |  1 -
> >  kernel/trace/trace_output.c  | 65 +++++++++---------------------------
> >  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/trace_events.h b/include/linux/trace_events.h
> > index 20749bd9db71..bb2053246d6a 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/trace_events.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/trace_events.h
> > @@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ struct trace_event_functions {
> >  
> >  struct trace_event {
> >	struct hlist_node		node;
> > -	struct list_head		list;
> >	int				type;
> >	struct trace_event_functions	*funcs;
> >  };
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
> > index 67f47ea27921..314d175dee3a 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
> 
> Please include linux/idr.h in this source file explicitly beause
> IDA APIs are defined in it.
> 

I'll do it in v2.

> Thank you,
> 
> > @@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(trace_event_sem);
> >  
> >  static struct hlist_head event_hash[EVENT_HASHSIZE] __read_mostly;
> >  
> > -static int next_event_type = __TRACE_LAST_TYPE;
> > -
> >  enum print_line_t trace_print_bputs_msg_only(struct trace_iterator *iter)
> >  {
> >	struct trace_seq *s = &iter->seq;
> > @@ -688,38 +686,23 @@ struct trace_event *ftrace_find_event(int type)
> >	return NULL;
> >  }
> >  
> > -static LIST_HEAD(ftrace_event_list);
> > +static DEFINE_IDA(trace_event_ida);
> >  
> > -static int trace_search_list(struct list_head **list)
> > +static void free_trace_event_type(int type)
> >  {
> > -	struct trace_event *e = NULL, *iter;
> > -	int next = __TRACE_LAST_TYPE;
> > -
> > -	if (list_empty(&ftrace_event_list)) {
> > -		*list = &ftrace_event_list;
> > -		return next;
> > -	}
> > +	if (type >= __TRACE_LAST_TYPE)
> > +		ida_free(&trace_event_ida, type);
> > +}
> >  
> > -	/*
> > -	 * We used up all possible max events,
> > -	 * lets see if somebody freed one.
> > -	 */
> > -	list_for_each_entry(iter, &ftrace_event_list, list) {
> > -		if (iter->type != next) {
> > -			e = iter;
> > -			break;
> > -		}
> > -		next++;
> > -	}
> > +static int alloc_trace_event_type(void)
> > +{
> > +	int next;
> >  
> > -	/* Did we used up all 65 thousand events??? */
> > -	if (next > TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX)
> > +	/* Skip static defined type numbers */
> > +	next = ida_alloc_range(&trace_event_ida, __TRACE_LAST_TYPE,
> > +			       TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (next < 0)
> >		return 0;
> > -
> > -	if (e)
> > -		*list = &e->list;
> > -	else
> > -		*list = &ftrace_event_list;
> >	return next;
> >  }
> >  
> > @@ -761,28 +744,10 @@ int register_trace_event(struct trace_event *event)
> >	if (WARN_ON(!event->funcs))
> >		goto out;
> >  
> > -	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->list);
> > -
> >	if (!event->type) {
> > -		struct list_head *list = NULL;
> > -
> > -		if (next_event_type > TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX) {
> > -
> > -			event->type = trace_search_list(&list);
> > -			if (!event->type)
> > -				goto out;
> > -
> > -		} else {
> > -
> > -			event->type = next_event_type++;
> > -			list = &ftrace_event_list;
> > -		}
> > -
> > -		if (WARN_ON(ftrace_find_event(event->type)))
> > +		event->type = alloc_trace_event_type();
> > +		if (!event->type)
> >			goto out;
> > -
> > -		list_add_tail(&event->list, list);
> > -
> >	} else if (WARN(event->type > __TRACE_LAST_TYPE,
> >			"Need to add type to trace.h")) {
> >		goto out;
> > @@ -819,7 +784,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_trace_event);
> >  int __unregister_trace_event(struct trace_event *event)
> >  {
> >	hlist_del(&event->node);
> > -	list_del(&event->list);
> > +	free_trace_event_type(event->type);
> >	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.25.1
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

-- Best regards, Zheng Yejian