cgroup/rstat: add cgroup_rstat_lock helpers and tracepoints
This commit enhances the ability to troubleshoot the global cgroup_rstat_lock by introducing wrapper helper functions for the lock along with associated tracepoints. Although global, the cgroup_rstat_lock helper APIs and tracepoints take arguments such as cgroup pointer and cpu_in_loop variable. This adjustment is made because flushing occurs per cgroup despite the lock being global. Hence, when troubleshooting, it's important to identify the relevant cgroup. The cpu_in_loop variable is necessary because the global lock may be released within the main flushing loop that traverses CPUs. In the tracepoints, the cpu_in_loop value is set to -1 when acquiring the main lock; otherwise, it denotes the CPU number processed last. The new feature in this patchset is detecting when lock is contended. The tracepoints are implemented with production in mind. For minimum overhead attach to cgroup:cgroup_rstat_lock_contended, which only gets activated when trylock detects lock is contended. A quick production check for issues could be done via this perf commands: perf record -g -e cgroup:cgroup_rstat_lock_contended Next natural question would be asking how long time do lock contenders wait for obtaining the lock. This can be answered by measuring the time between cgroup:cgroup_rstat_lock_contended and cgroup:cgroup_rstat_locked when args->contended is set. Like this bpftrace script: bpftrace -e ' tracepoint:cgroup:cgroup_rstat_lock_contended {@start[tid]=nsecs} tracepoint:cgroup:cgroup_rstat_locked { if (args->contended) { @wait_ns=hist(nsecs-@start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]);}} interval:s:1 {time("%H:%M:%S "); print(@wait_ns); }' Extending with time spend holding the lock will be more expensive as this also looks at all the non-contended cases. Like this bpftrace script: bpftrace -e ' tracepoint:cgroup:cgroup_rstat_lock_contended {@start[tid]=nsecs} tracepoint:cgroup:cgroup_rstat_locked { @locked[tid]=nsecs; if (args->contended) { @wait_ns=hist(nsecs-@start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]);}} tracepoint:cgroup:cgroup_rstat_unlock { @locked_ns=hist(nsecs-@locked[tid]); delete(@locked[tid]);} interval:s:1 {time("%H:%M:%S "); print(@wait_ns);print(@locked_ns); }' Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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