[ltt-dev] UST double-buffering won't always trigger consumer daemon

[capricornalpha2@gmail.com (Anders Carlsson)]

Thanks Mathieu,

I had to leave work before being able to post a reply myself.

Best regards
Anders

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers <
compudj at krystal.dyndns.org> wrote:

> * Mathieu Desnoyers (compudj at krystal.dyndns.org) wrote:
> > * Anders Carlsson (capricornalpha2 at gmail.com) wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I working on a UST port, but I cannot _reliably_ get trace data trough
> to
> > > the consumer daemon. To me it seems the traced application fails to
> trigger
> > > the consumer daemon when a sub-buffer boundary is crossed.
> >
> > Can you specify which UST version you are working on ?
> >
> > This looks like one of the few design issues that I fixed in the generic
> > ring buffer that I introduce in userspace in UST 2.0.
>
> For everyone's benefit, I received a private reply stating that the
> problem was not in UST upstream, but rather in the specific adaptation
> Anders is working on.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mathieu
> >
> > >
> > > From buffers.h:
> > >
> > > static __inline__ void ltt_check_deliver(struct ust_channel *chan,
> > >         struct ust_buffer *buf,
> > >         long offset, long commit_count, long idx)
> > > {
> > >     long old_commit_count = commit_count - chan->subbuf_size;
> > >
> > >     /* Check if all commits have been done */
> > >     if (unlikely((BUFFER_TRUNC(offset, chan)
> > >             >> chan->n_subbufs_order)
> > >             - (old_commit_count
> > >                & chan->commit_count_mask) == 0)) {
> > > ...
> > >
> > > This condition becomes true only when commit_count equals a multiple of
> > > chan->subbuf_size, but when I add a printout of the values it appears
> that
> > > the buffer boundary is often crossed without commit_count ever becoming
> > > equal to the subbuffer size. In those cases, the trace ceases to
> operate.
> > > This seems to depend on the various tracepoint data sizes, and the
> order of
> > > commit etc.
> > >
> > > I suppose this could be taken care of by aligning the reservations to
> the
> > > subbuffer boundaries. It seems to me there is already code to handle
> that
> > > (in ltt_relay_try_reserve_slow()) Am I correct?
> > >
> > > Am I missing something (e.g. alignment differences between ARM and
> x86)?
> > >
> > > Should I look somewhere specific?
> > >
> > > Thank you for reading this far. Any help is appreciated.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Anders
> >
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