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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch] Allow user to disable tracepoint support in gdbserver via command line
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107191928.23553.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110719174427.D9BC3190BC8@elbrus2.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tuesday 19 July 2011 18:44:27, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Following up on my earlier "slow on high-latency links" message:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-07/msg00391.html ...
> 
> Another source of major slowness for me is the gdbserver querying for
> tracepoint symbols.
> 
> I see repeated (for each SOLIB) sequences of:
> 
> 00:00:44 Sending packet: $qSymbol::#5b...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f6764625f74705f686561705f627566666572
> 00:00:44 Packet qSymbol (symbol-lookup) is supported
> 00:00:44 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f6764625f74705f686561705f627566666572#1e...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f6764625f6a756d705f7061645f627566666572
> 00:00:44 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f6764625f6a756d705f7061645f627566666572#e1...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f6764625f6a756d705f7061645f6275666665725f656e64
> 00:00:44 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f6764625f6a756d705f7061645f6275666665725f656e64#ec...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f636f6c6c656374696e67
> 00:00:44 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f636f6c6c656374696e67#02...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f6764625f636f6c6c656374
> 00:00:45 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f6764625f636f6c6c656374#65...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f73746f705f74726163696e67
> 00:00:45 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f73746f705f74726163696e67#a3...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f666c7573685f74726163655f627566666572
> 00:00:45 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f666c7573685f74726163655f627566666572#23...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f61626f75745f746f5f726571756573745f6275666665725f7370616365
> 00:00:45 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f61626f75745f746f5f726571756573745f6275666665725f7370616365#3e...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f6275666665725f69735f66756c6c
> 00:00:45 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f6275666665725f69735f66756c6c#58...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f73746f7070696e675f7472616365706f696e74
> 00:00:45 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f73746f7070696e675f7472616365706f696e74#ed...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f657870725f6576616c5f726573756c74
> 00:00:46 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f657870725f6576616c5f726573756c74#7b...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f6572726f725f7472616365706f696e74
> 00:00:46 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f6572726f725f7472616365706f696e74#79...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f7472616365706f696e7473
> 00:00:46 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f7472616365706f696e7473#06...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f74726163696e67
> 00:00:46 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f74726163696e67#30...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f6275666665725f6374726c
> 00:00:46 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f6275666665725f6374726c#b0...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f6275666665725f6374726c5f63757272
> 00:00:46 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f6275666665725f6374726c5f63757272#f2...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f6275666665725f6c6f
> 00:00:47 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f6275666665725f6c6f#0f...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f6275666665725f6869
> 00:00:47 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f6275666665725f6869#b7...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f74726163656672616d655f726561645f636f756e74
> 00:00:47 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f74726163656672616d655f726561645f636f756e74#b7...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f74726163656672616d655f77726974655f636f756e74
> 00:00:47 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f74726163656672616d655f77726974655f636f756e74#2e...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f74726163656672616d65735f63726561746564
> 00:00:47 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f74726163656672616d65735f63726561746564#4e...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f73746174655f7661726961626c6573
> 00:00:47 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f74726163655f73746174655f7661726961626c6573#55...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f6765745f7261775f726567
> 00:00:48 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f6765745f7261775f726567#0d...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f6765745f74726163655f73746174655f7661726961626c655f76616c7565
> 00:00:48 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f6765745f74726163655f73746174655f7661726961626c655f76616c7565#a8...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f7365745f74726163655f73746174655f7661726961626c655f76616c7565
> 00:00:48 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f7365745f74726163655f73746174655f7661726961626c655f76616c7565#a5...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f7573745f6c6f61646564
> 00:00:48 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f7573745f6c6f61646564#cc...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f68656c7065725f7468726561645f6964
> 00:00:48 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f68656c7065725f7468726561645f6964#4f...Packet received: qSymbol:6764625f6167656e745f636d645f627566
> 00:00:48 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6764625f6167656e745f636d645f627566#5d...Packet received: qSymbol:6e70746c5f76657273696f6e
> 00:00:49 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6e70746c5f76657273696f6e#4d...Packet received: qSymbol:6e70746c5f76657273696f6e
> 00:00:49 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6e70746c5f76657273696f6e#4d...Packet received: qSymbol:6e70746c5f76657273696f6e
> 00:00:49 Sending packet: $qSymbol::6e70746c5f76657273696f6e#4d...Packet received: OK
> 
> Since I have 10 shared libraries in that executable, this costs me about
> 1 minute delay, and is completely wasted, because I am not going to use
> tracepoints.

Most of that querying is actually unnecessary.  All the symbols the
tracepoints module is looking up are required for libinproctrace.so to be
active.  So, there's no need to look them all up if any fails to be found, since
if any fails, we know we don't have libinproctrace.so loaded yet.  In practice,
we end up doing one (tracepoint related) query per DSO only.  Can you give the
patch below a try?  We have had this in our tree for months.  Hopefuly it'll
still apply cleanly.

-- 
Pedro Alves

2011-01-27  Pedro Alves  <pedro@codesourcery.com>

	gdb/gdbserver
	* gdbserver (tracepoint_look_up_symbols): Return upon the
	first symbol error.

Index: gdb/gdbserver/tracepoint.c
===================================================================
--- gdb.orig/gdbserver/tracepoint.c	2011-01-26 15:52:39.634522000 -0200
+++ gdb/gdbserver/tracepoint.c	2011-01-26 16:14:59.554522000 -0200
@@ -320,13 +320,11 @@
 void
 tracepoint_look_up_symbols (void)
 {
-  int all_ok;
   int i;
 
   if (all_tracepoint_symbols_looked_up)
     return;
 
-  all_ok = 1;
   for (i = 0; i < sizeof (symbol_list) / sizeof (symbol_list[0]); i++)
     {
       CORE_ADDR *addrp =
@@ -336,11 +334,11 @@
 	{
 	  if (debug_threads)
 	    fprintf (stderr, "symbol `%s' not found\n", symbol_list[i].name);
-	  all_ok = 0;
+	  return;
 	}
     }
 
-  all_tracepoint_symbols_looked_up = all_ok;
+  all_tracepoint_symbols_looked_up = 1;
 }
 
 #endif


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-19 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-19 18:13 Paul Pluzhnikov
2011-07-19 18:44 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2011-07-19 20:31   ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2011-07-20 12:34     ` Pedro Alves

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