On 19.01.25 11:32, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
Dumping processes with large allocated and mostly not-faulted areas is
very slow.
Borrowing a test case from Tavian Barnes:
int main(void) {
char *mem = mmap(NULL, 1ULL << 40, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
printf("%p %m\n", mem);
if (mem != MAP_FAILED) {
mem[0] = 1;
}
abort();
}
That's 1TB of almost completely not-populated area.
On my test box it takes 13-14 seconds to dump.
The profile shows:
- 99.89% 0.00% a.out
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
do_syscall_64
syscall_exit_to_user_mode
arch_do_signal_or_restart
- get_signal
- 99.89% do_coredump
- 99.88% elf_core_dump
- dump_user_range
- 98.12% get_dump_page
- 64.19% __get_user_pages
- 40.92% gup_vma_lookup
- find_vma
- mt_find
4.21% __rcu_read_lock
1.33% __rcu_read_unlock
- 3.14% check_vma_flags
0.68% vma_is_secretmem
0.61% __cond_resched
0.60% vma_pgtable_walk_end
0.59% vma_pgtable_walk_begin
0.58% no_page_table
- 15.13% down_read_killable
0.69% __cond_resched
13.84% up_read
0.58% __cond_resched
Almost 29% of the time is spent relocking the mmap semaphore between
calls to get_dump_page() which find nothing.
Whacking that results in times of 10 seconds (down from 13-14).
While here make the thing killable.
The real problem is the page-sized iteration and the real fix would
patch it up instead. It is left as an exercise for the mm-familiar
reader.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx>
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Minimally tested, very plausible I missed something.
sent again because the previous thing has myself in To -- i failed to
fix up the oneliner suggested by lore.kernel.org. it seem the original
got lost.
arch/arm64/kernel/elfcore.c | 3 ++-
fs/coredump.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
include/linux/mm.h | 2 +-
mm/gup.c | 5 ++---
4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
MM side LGTM
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Cheers,
David / dhildenb
