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authorKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>2015-06-17 09:51:10 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-06-19 18:20:15 -0300
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perf tools: Add time out to force stop proc map processing
System wide sampling like 'perf top' or 'perf record -a' read all threads /proc/xxx/maps before sampling. If there are any threads which generating a keeping growing huge maps, perf will do infinite loop during synthesizing. Nothing will be sampled. This patch fixes this issue by adding per-thread timeout to force stop this kind of endless proc map processing. PERF_RECORD_MISC_PROC_MAP_PARSE_TIME_OUT is introduced to indicate that the mmap record are truncated by time out. User will get warning notification when truncated mmap records are detected. Reported-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434549071-25611-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 613ed9ad588f..d97f84c080da 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -566,6 +566,10 @@ struct perf_event_mmap_page {
#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER (5 << 0)
/*
+ * Indicates that /proc/PID/maps parsing are truncated by time out.
+ */
+#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_PROC_MAP_PARSE_TIMEOUT (1 << 12)
+/*
* PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA and PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC are used on
* different events so can reuse the same bit position.
*/