#! /usr/bin/env stap # # Copyright (C) 2007 Oracle Corp. Chris Mason # # This was implemented to find the most common causes of schedule during # the AIO io_submit call. It does this by recording which pids are inside # AIO, and recording the current stack trace if one of those pids is # inside schedule. # When the probe exits, it prints out the 30 most common call stacks for # schedule(). # # This file is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under # the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL); either version 2, or (at # your option) any later version. global in_iosubmit global traces /* * add a probe to sys_io_submit, on entry, record in the in_iosubmit * hash table that this proc is in io_submit */ probe syscall.io_submit { in_iosubmit[tid()] = 1 } /* * when we return from sys_io_submit, record that we're no longer there */ probe syscall.io_submit.return { delete in_iosubmit[tid()] } /* * every time we call schedule, check to see if we started off in * io_submit. If so, record our backtrace into the traces histogram */ probe kernel.function("schedule") { if (tid() in in_iosubmit) { traces[backtrace()] <<< 1 /* * change this to if (1) if you want a backtrace every time * you go into schedule from io_submit. Unfortunately, the traces * saved into the traces histogram above are truncated to just a * few lines. so the only way to see the full trace is via the * more verbose print_backtrace() right here. */ if (0) { printf("schedule in io_submit!\n") print_backtrace() } } } probe begin { printf("Ready!\n") } /* * when stap is done (via ctrl-c) go through the record of all the * trace paths and print the 30 most common. */ probe end { foreach (stack in traces- limit 30) { printf("%d:", @count(traces[stack])) print_syms(stack); } }