The current memory allocation of struct task_desc *pid_to_task[MAX_PID]
is in a permanent and preset way, and it has two problems:
Problem 1: If the pid_max, which is the max number of pids in the
system, is much smaller than MAX_PID (1024*1000), then it causes a waste
of stack memory. This may happen in the case where the number of cpu
cores is much smaller than 1000.
Problem 2: If the pid_max is changed from the default value to a value
larger than MAX_PID, then it will cause assertion failure problem. The
maximum value of pid_max can be set to pid_max_max (see pidmap_init
defined in kernel/pid.c), which equals to PID_MAX_LIMIT. In x86_64,
PID_MAX_LIMIT is 4*1024*1024 (defined in include/linux/threads.h). This
value is much larger than MAX_PID, and will take up 32768 Kbytes
(4*1024*1024*8/1024) for memory allocation of pid_to_task, which is much
larger than the default 8192 Kbytes of the stack size of calling
process.
Due to these two problems, we use calloc to allocate the memory of
pid_to_task dynamically.
Example:
Test environment: x86_64 with 160 cores
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
163840
$ echo 1025000 > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
1025000
Run some applications until the pid of some process is greater than
the value of MAX_PID (1024*1000).
Before this patch:
$ perf sched replay
run measurement overhead: 221 nsecs
sleep measurement overhead: 55480 nsecs
the run test took 1000008 nsecs
the sleep test took 1063151 nsecs
perf: builtin-sched.c:330: register_pid: Assertion `!(pid >= 1024000)'
failed.
Aborted
After this patch:
$ perf sched replay
run measurement overhead: 221 nsecs
sleep measurement overhead: 55435 nsecs
the run test took 1000004 nsecs
the sleep test took 1059312 nsecs
nr_run_events: 10
nr_sleep_events: 1562
nr_wakeup_events: 5
task 0 ( :1: 1), nr_events: 1
task 1 ( :2: 2), nr_events: 1
task 2 ( :3: 3), nr_events: 1
task 3 ( :5: 5), nr_events: 1
...
Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427809596-29559-4-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
cb06ac256a