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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2013-08-04 19:41:26 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-08-16 17:17:57 -0300
commitbec196720431db2fd6a9b03cbd77eb336e6f52de (patch)
tree01f671397f4ba0e811cf6d3b244777e2d97f8d88 /tools
parentfe32ee0fc1c43f780529da79329d8c87ebc51464 (diff)
perf tools: Try to increase the file descriptor limits on EMFILE
perf stat -a needs 10 open file descriptors per logical CPU perf stat -a -dddd needs 20 open fds for each. This implies that stat -a doesn't work on any system with the default ulimit -n 1024 which has more than ~100 CPUs and stat -a -dddd doesn't work on anything with more than 46 CPUs. Longer term there needs to be probably some way to lower the file descriptor requirements. This would need some changes in the kernel/user interface. But short term this patch just tries to increase the file descriptor limit in perf itself, when it runs into a EMFILE. It first sets it to the hard limit, and then tries to increase the hard limit. On Fedora systems the default seems to be soft limit 1024 and hard limit 4*1024. So even non root can support 409 or 186 CPUs respectively. root can go far higher. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375670486-15480-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c28
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 960394ea1e3a..a29c8d03ac69 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <traceevent/event-parse.h>
#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
#include "asm/bug.h"
#include "evsel.h"
#include "evlist.h"
@@ -867,6 +868,7 @@ static int __perf_evsel__open(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct cpu_map *cpus,
int cpu, thread;
unsigned long flags = 0;
int pid = -1, err;
+ enum { NO_CHANGE, SET_TO_MAX, INCREASED_MAX } set_rlimit = NO_CHANGE;
if (evsel->fd == NULL &&
perf_evsel__alloc_fd(evsel, cpus->nr, threads->nr) < 0)
@@ -894,6 +896,7 @@ retry_sample_id:
group_fd = get_group_fd(evsel, cpu, thread);
+retry_open:
FD(evsel, cpu, thread) = sys_perf_event_open(&evsel->attr,
pid,
cpus->map[cpu],
@@ -902,12 +905,37 @@ retry_sample_id:
err = -errno;
goto try_fallback;
}
+ set_rlimit = NO_CHANGE;
}
}
return 0;
try_fallback:
+ /*
+ * perf stat needs between 5 and 22 fds per CPU. When we run out
+ * of them try to increase the limits.
+ */
+ if (err == -EMFILE && set_rlimit < INCREASED_MAX) {
+ struct rlimit l;
+ int old_errno = errno;
+
+ if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &l) == 0) {
+ if (set_rlimit == NO_CHANGE)
+ l.rlim_cur = l.rlim_max;
+ else {
+ l.rlim_cur = l.rlim_max + 1000;
+ l.rlim_max = l.rlim_cur;
+ }
+ if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &l) == 0) {
+ set_rlimit++;
+ errno = old_errno;
+ goto retry_open;
+ }
+ }
+ errno = old_errno;
+ }
+
if (err != -EINVAL || cpu > 0 || thread > 0)
goto out_close;