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perf lock contention: Fix spinlock and rwlock accounting

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The spinlock and rwlock use a single-element per-cpu array to track
current locks due to performance reason.  But this means the key is
always available and it cannot simply account lock stats in the array
because some of them are invalid.

In fact, the contention_end() program in the BPF invalidates the entry
by setting the 'lock' value to 0 instead of deleting the entry for the
hashmap.  So it should skip entries with the lock value of 0 in the
account_end_timestamp().

Otherwise, it'd have spurious high contention on an idle machine:

  $ sudo perf lock con -ab -Y spinlock sleep 3
   contended   total wait     max wait     avg wait         type   caller

           8      4.72 s       1.84 s     590.46 ms     spinlock   rcu_core+0xc7
           8      1.87 s       1.87 s     233.48 ms     spinlock   process_one_work+0x1b5
           2      1.87 s       1.87 s     933.92 ms     spinlock   worker_thread+0x1a2
           3      1.81 s       1.81 s     603.93 ms     spinlock   tmigr_update_events+0x13c
           2      1.72 s       1.72 s     861.98 ms     spinlock   tick_do_update_jiffies64+0x25
           6     42.48 us     13.02 us      7.08 us     spinlock   futex_q_lock+0x2a
           1     13.03 us     13.03 us     13.03 us     spinlock   futex_wake+0xce
           1     11.61 us     11.61 us     11.61 us     spinlock   rcu_core+0xc7

I don't believe it has contention on a spinlock longer than 1 second.
After this change, it only reports some small contentions.

  $ sudo perf lock con -ab -Y spinlock sleep 3
   contended   total wait     max wait     avg wait         type   caller

           4    133.51 us     43.29 us     33.38 us     spinlock   tick_do_update_jiffies64+0x25
           4     69.06 us     31.82 us     17.27 us     spinlock   process_one_work+0x1b5
           2     50.66 us     25.77 us     25.33 us     spinlock   rcu_core+0xc7
           1     28.45 us     28.45 us     28.45 us     spinlock   rcu_core+0xc7
           1     24.77 us     24.77 us     24.77 us     spinlock   tmigr_update_events+0x13c
           1     23.34 us     23.34 us     23.34 us     spinlock   raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x15

Fixes: b5711042a1 ("perf lock contention: Use per-cpu array map for spinlocks")
Reported-by: Xi Wang <xii@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240828052953.1445862-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Namhyung Kim 2024-08-27 22:29:53 -07:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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@ -286,6 +286,9 @@ static void account_end_timestamp(struct lock_contention *con)
goto next;
for (int i = 0; i < total_cpus; i++) {
if (cpu_data[i].lock == 0)
continue;
update_lock_stat(stat_fd, -1, end_ts, aggr_mode,
&cpu_data[i]);
}