[Crash-utility] Speed up list/tree '-s' output.

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Wed Aug 24 20:26:19 UTC 2016



----- Original Message -----
> Hi Dave,
> 
> here is patch with arguments instead of static variables:

Looks good, thanks!

I'm still working with the symtab.c patch, because as it turns out, it 
can obviate the need for ANON_MEMBER_OFFSET_INIT() in most cases, which
will speed up session initialization.  Pretty nifty...

Thanks,
  Dave



> 
> --- gdb-7.6.orig/gdb/symtab.c	2016-08-18 09:06:33.000000000 +0300
> +++ gdb-7.6/gdb/symtab.c	2016-08-24 08:40:45.700772046 +0300
> @@ -5122,7 +5122,7 @@
>  #define GDB_COMMON
>  #include "../../defs.h"
>  
> -static void get_member_data(struct gnu_request *, struct type *);
> +static void get_member_data(struct gnu_request *, struct type *, long,
> char);
>  static void dump_enum(struct type *, struct gnu_request *);
>  static void eval_enum(struct type *, struct gnu_request *);
>  static void gdb_get_line_number(struct gnu_request *);
> @@ -5327,7 +5327,7 @@
>                  req->typecode = TYPE_CODE(sym->type);
>                  req->length = TYPE_LENGTH(sym->type);
>  		if (req->member)
> -			get_member_data(req, sym->type);
> +			get_member_data(req, sym->type, 0, 1);
>  			
>  		if (TYPE_CODE(sym->type) == TYPE_CODE_ENUM) {
>  			if (req->flags & GNU_PRINT_ENUMERATORS)
> @@ -5397,7 +5397,7 @@
>  		}
>  
>                  if (req->member)
> -                	get_member_data(req, type);
> +                	get_member_data(req, type, 0, 1);
>  		
>  		break;
>  
> @@ -5480,7 +5480,7 @@
>   *  member field, and when found, return its relevant data.
>   */
>  static void
> -get_member_data(struct gnu_request *req, struct type *type)
> +get_member_data(struct gnu_request *req, struct type *type, long offset,
> char is_first)
>  {
>  	register short i;
>  	struct field *nextfield;
> @@ -5492,7 +5492,7 @@
>  	nfields = TYPE_MAIN_TYPE(type)->nfields;
>  	nextfield = TYPE_MAIN_TYPE(type)->flds_bnds.fields;
>  
> -        if (nfields == 0) {
> +	if (nfields == 0 && is_first /* The first call */) {
>  		struct type *newtype;
>                  newtype = lookup_transparent_type(req->name);
>                  if (newtype) {
> @@ -5505,13 +5505,18 @@
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < nfields; i++) {
>  		if (STREQ(req->member, nextfield->name)) {
> -			req->member_offset = nextfield->loc.bitpos;
> +			req->member_offset = offset + nextfield->loc.bitpos;
>  			req->member_length = TYPE_LENGTH(nextfield->type);
>  			req->member_typecode = TYPE_CODE(nextfield->type);
>  			if ((req->member_typecode == TYPE_CODE_TYPEDEF) &&
>  			    (typedef_type = check_typedef(nextfield->type)))
>          			req->member_length = TYPE_LENGTH(typedef_type);
>  			return;
> +		} else if (*nextfield->name == 0) { /* Anonymous struct/union */
> +			get_member_data(req, nextfield->type,
> +			    offset + nextfield->loc.bitpos, 0);
> +			if (req->member_offset != -1)
> +				return;
>  		}
>  		nextfield++;
>  	}
> @@ -5706,7 +5711,7 @@
>  	}
>  
>  	if (req->member)
> -		get_member_data(req, type);
> +		get_member_data(req, type, 0, 1);
>  
>          do_cleanups (old_chain);
>  }
> 
> Thanks,
> Alexandr
> ________________________________________
> From: crash-utility-bounces at redhat.com <crash-utility-bounces at redhat.com> on
> behalf of Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 23:17
> To: Discussion list for crash utility usage,    maintenance and development
> Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] Speed up list/tree '-s' output.
> 
> Hi Alexandr,
> 
> I'm still testing and sanity-checking the symtab.c patch given that it's
> modifying such a commonly-called function.  Interestingly enough, it's
> actually uncovered a bug with the current determination of the page.list
> members, which I found by saving the output of "help -o" into a file,
> both without and then with your patch, into /tmp/old and /tmp/new, and
> then diff'ed the two files:
> 
>   # diff /tmp/old /tmp/new
>   221,223c221,223
>   <                      page_list: -1
>   <                 page_list_next: -1
>   <                 page_list_prev: -1
>   ---
>   >                      page_list: 32
>   >                 page_list_next: 32
>   >                 page_list_prev: 40
>   #
> 
> Fortunately those fields aren't used by the crash code for more recent
> kernels, which have gone crazy with the anonymous structures in the page
> structure.  But anyway, that was a good catch by your patch.
> 
> On the other hand, I don't like the use of the deep and offset static
> variables, because there's always the remote possibility that a
> CTRL-C or other function failure may happen while they are set, and
> then leave them in a bogus state.  So I would rather they get passed as
> arguments.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Dave
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > here is updated patch for gdb/symtab.c:
> >
> > --- gdb-7.6.orig/gdb/symtab.c 2016-08-18 09:06:33.000000000 +0300
> > +++ gdb-7.6/gdb/symtab.c      2016-08-23 14:28:45.456510348 +0300
> > @@ -5486,13 +5486,15 @@
> >       struct field *nextfield;
> >       short nfields;
> >       struct type *typedef_type;
> > +     static int deep = 0;
> > +     static long offset = 0;
> >
> >       req->member_offset = -1;
> >
> >       nfields = TYPE_MAIN_TYPE(type)->nfields;
> >       nextfield = TYPE_MAIN_TYPE(type)->flds_bnds.fields;
> >
> > -        if (nfields == 0) {
> > +     if (nfields == 0 && deep == 0 /* The first call */) {
> >               struct type *newtype;
> >                  newtype = lookup_transparent_type(req->name);
> >                  if (newtype) {
> > @@ -5505,13 +5507,21 @@
> >
> >       for (i = 0; i < nfields; i++) {
> >               if (STREQ(req->member, nextfield->name)) {
> > -                     req->member_offset = nextfield->loc.bitpos;
> > +                     req->member_offset = offset + nextfield->loc.bitpos;
> >                       req->member_length = TYPE_LENGTH(nextfield->type);
> >                       req->member_typecode = TYPE_CODE(nextfield->type);
> >                       if ((req->member_typecode == TYPE_CODE_TYPEDEF) &&
> >                           (typedef_type = check_typedef(nextfield->type)))
> >                               req->member_length =
> >                               TYPE_LENGTH(typedef_type);
> >                       return;
> > +             } else if (*nextfield->name == 0) { /* Anonymous struct/union
> > */
> > +                     deep++;
> > +                     offset += nextfield->loc.bitpos;
> > +                     get_member_data(req, nextfield->type);
> > +                     offset -= nextfield->loc.bitpos;
> > +                     deep--;
> > +                     if (req->member_offset != -1)
> > +                             return;
> >               }
> >               nextfield++;
> >       }
> > @@ -5705,7 +5715,7 @@
> >               req->target_length = target_type->length;
> >       }
> >
> > -     if (req->member)
> > +     if (req->member)
> >               get_member_data(req, type);
> >
> >          do_cleanups (old_chain);
> >
> > The patch for crash tool can be found on github:
> > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hziSot/crash-patches/41abc6f9c91c2a602973ff9564234395deadb80e/crash_speed_up_tree_list.patch
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alexandr
> >
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