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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/accounting/Makefile | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/accounting/cgroupstats.txt | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt | 117 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c | 545 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt | 180 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt | 181 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/Makefile b/Documentation/accounting/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 00000000..31929eb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/accounting/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# kbuild trick to avoid linker error. Can be omitted if a module is built. +obj- := dummy.o + +# List of programs to build +hostprogs-y := getdelays + +# Tell kbuild to always build the programs +always := $(hostprogs-y) + +HOSTCFLAGS_getdelays.o += -I$(objtree)/usr/include diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/cgroupstats.txt b/Documentation/accounting/cgroupstats.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d16a9849 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/accounting/cgroupstats.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Control Groupstats is inspired by the discussion at +http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/187 and implements per cgroup statistics as +suggested by Andrew Morton in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/263. + +Per cgroup statistics infrastructure re-uses code from the taskstats +interface. A new set of cgroup operations are registered with commands +and attributes specific to cgroups. It should be very easy to +extend per cgroup statistics, by adding members to the cgroupstats +structure. + +The current model for cgroupstats is a pull, a push model (to post +statistics on interesting events), should be very easy to add. Currently +user space requests for statistics by passing the cgroup path. +Statistics about the state of all the tasks in the cgroup is returned to +user space. + +NOTE: We currently rely on delay accounting for extracting information +about tasks blocked on I/O. If CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT is disabled, this +information will not be available. + +To extract cgroup statistics a utility very similar to getdelays.c +has been developed, the sample output of the utility is shown below + +~/balbir/cgroupstats # ./getdelays -C "/sys/fs/cgroup/a" +sleeping 1, blocked 0, running 1, stopped 0, uninterruptible 0 +~/balbir/cgroupstats # ./getdelays -C "/sys/fs/cgroup" +sleeping 155, blocked 0, running 1, stopped 0, uninterruptible 2 diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8a12f073 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +Delay accounting +---------------- + +Tasks encounter delays in execution when they wait +for some kernel resource to become available e.g. a +runnable task may wait for a free CPU to run on. + +The per-task delay accounting functionality measures +the delays experienced by a task while + +a) waiting for a CPU (while being runnable) +b) completion of synchronous block I/O initiated by the task +c) swapping in pages +d) memory reclaim + +and makes these statistics available to userspace through +the taskstats interface. + +Such delays provide feedback for setting a task's cpu priority, +io priority and rss limit values appropriately. Long delays for +important tasks could be a trigger for raising its corresponding priority. + +The functionality, through its use of the taskstats interface, also provides +delay statistics aggregated for all tasks (or threads) belonging to a +thread group (corresponding to a traditional Unix process). This is a commonly +needed aggregation that is more efficiently done by the kernel. + +Userspace utilities, particularly resource management applications, can also +aggregate delay statistics into arbitrary groups. To enable this, delay +statistics of a task are available both during its lifetime as well as on its +exit, ensuring continuous and complete monitoring can be done. + + +Interface +--------- + +Delay accounting uses the taskstats interface which is described +in detail in a separate document in this directory. Taskstats returns a +generic data structure to userspace corresponding to per-pid and per-tgid +statistics. The delay accounting functionality populates specific fields of +this structure. See + include/linux/taskstats.h +for a description of the fields pertaining to delay accounting. +It will generally be in the form of counters returning the cumulative +delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin, memory reclaim etc. + +Taking the difference of two successive readings of a given +counter (say cpu_delay_total) for a task will give the delay +experienced by the task waiting for the corresponding resource +in that interval. + +When a task exits, records containing the per-task statistics +are sent to userspace without requiring a command. If it is the last exiting +task of a thread group, the per-tgid statistics are also sent. More details +are given in the taskstats interface description. + +The getdelays.c userspace utility in this directory allows simple commands to +be run and the corresponding delay statistics to be displayed. It also serves +as an example of using the taskstats interface. + +Usage +----- + +Compile the kernel with + CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT=y + CONFIG_TASKSTATS=y + +Delay accounting is enabled by default at boot up. +To disable, add + nodelayacct +to the kernel boot options. The rest of the instructions +below assume this has not been done. + +After the system has booted up, use a utility +similar to getdelays.c to access the delays +seen by a given task or a task group (tgid). +The utility also allows a given command to be +executed and the corresponding delays to be +seen. + +General format of the getdelays command + +getdelays [-t tgid] [-p pid] [-c cmd...] + + +Get delays, since system boot, for pid 10 +# ./getdelays -p 10 +(output similar to next case) + +Get sum of delays, since system boot, for all pids with tgid 5 +# ./getdelays -t 5 + + +CPU count real total virtual total delay total + 7876 92005750 100000000 24001500 +IO count delay total + 0 0 +SWAP count delay total + 0 0 +RECLAIM count delay total + 0 0 + +Get delays seen in executing a given simple command +# ./getdelays -c ls / + +bin data1 data3 data5 dev home media opt root srv sys usr +boot data2 data4 data6 etc lib mnt proc sbin subdomain tmp var + + +CPU count real total virtual total delay total + 6 4000250 4000000 0 +IO count delay total + 0 0 +SWAP count delay total + 0 0 +RECLAIM count delay total + 0 0 diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f8ebcde4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c @@ -0,0 +1,545 @@ +/* getdelays.c + * + * Utility to get per-pid and per-tgid delay accounting statistics + * Also illustrates usage of the taskstats interface + * + * Copyright (C) Shailabh Nagar, IBM Corp. 2005 + * Copyright (C) Balbir Singh, IBM Corp. 2006 + * Copyright (c) Jay Lan, SGI. 2006 + * + * Compile with + * gcc -I/usr/src/linux/include getdelays.c -o getdelays + */ + +#include <stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <errno.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include <poll.h> +#include <string.h> +#include <fcntl.h> +#include <sys/types.h> +#include <sys/stat.h> +#include <sys/socket.h> +#include <sys/wait.h> +#include <signal.h> + +#include <linux/genetlink.h> +#include <linux/taskstats.h> +#include <linux/cgroupstats.h> + +/* + * Generic macros for dealing with netlink sockets. Might be duplicated + * elsewhere. It is recommended that commercial grade applications use + * libnl or libnetlink and use the interfaces provided by the library + */ +#define GENLMSG_DATA(glh) ((void *)(NLMSG_DATA(glh) + GENL_HDRLEN)) +#define GENLMSG_PAYLOAD(glh) (NLMSG_PAYLOAD(glh, 0) - GENL_HDRLEN) +#define NLA_DATA(na) ((void *)((char*)(na) + NLA_HDRLEN)) +#define NLA_PAYLOAD(len) (len - NLA_HDRLEN) + +#define err(code, fmt, arg...) \ + do { \ + fprintf(stderr, fmt, ##arg); \ + exit(code); \ + } while (0) + +int done; +int rcvbufsz; +char name[100]; +int dbg; +int print_delays; +int print_io_accounting; +int print_task_context_switch_counts; + +#define PRINTF(fmt, arg...) { \ + if (dbg) { \ + printf(fmt, ##arg); \ + } \ + } + +/* Maximum size of response requested or message sent */ +#define MAX_MSG_SIZE 1024 +/* Maximum number of cpus expected to be specified in a cpumask */ +#define MAX_CPUS 32 + +struct msgtemplate { + struct nlmsghdr n; + struct genlmsghdr g; + char buf[MAX_MSG_SIZE]; +}; + +char cpumask[100+6*MAX_CPUS]; + +static void usage(void) +{ + fprintf(stderr, "getdelays [-dilv] [-w logfile] [-r bufsize] " + "[-m cpumask] [-t tgid] [-p pid]\n"); + fprintf(stderr, " -d: print delayacct stats\n"); + fprintf(stderr, " -i: print IO accounting (works only with -p)\n"); + fprintf(stderr, " -l: listen forever\n"); + fprintf(stderr, " -v: debug on\n"); + fprintf(stderr, " -C: container path\n"); +} + +/* + * Create a raw netlink socket and bind + */ +static int create_nl_socket(int protocol) +{ + int fd; + struct sockaddr_nl local; + + fd = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, protocol); + if (fd < 0) + return -1; + + if (rcvbufsz) + if (setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, + &rcvbufsz, sizeof(rcvbufsz)) < 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "Unable to set socket rcv buf size to %d\n", + rcvbufsz); + goto error; + } + + memset(&local, 0, sizeof(local)); + local.nl_family = AF_NETLINK; + + if (bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *) &local, sizeof(local)) < 0) + goto error; + + return fd; +error: + close(fd); + return -1; +} + + +static int send_cmd(int sd, __u16 nlmsg_type, __u32 nlmsg_pid, + __u8 genl_cmd, __u16 nla_type, + void *nla_data, int nla_len) +{ + struct nlattr *na; + struct sockaddr_nl nladdr; + int r, buflen; + char *buf; + + struct msgtemplate msg; + + msg.n.nlmsg_len = NLMSG_LENGTH(GENL_HDRLEN); + msg.n.nlmsg_type = nlmsg_type; + msg.n.nlmsg_flags = NLM_F_REQUEST; + msg.n.nlmsg_seq = 0; + msg.n.nlmsg_pid = nlmsg_pid; + msg.g.cmd = genl_cmd; + msg.g.version = 0x1; + na = (struct nlattr *) GENLMSG_DATA(&msg); + na->nla_type = nla_type; + na->nla_len = nla_len + 1 + NLA_HDRLEN; + memcpy(NLA_DATA(na), nla_data, nla_len); + msg.n.nlmsg_len += NLMSG_ALIGN(na->nla_len); + + buf = (char *) &msg; + buflen = msg.n.nlmsg_len ; + memset(&nladdr, 0, sizeof(nladdr)); + nladdr.nl_family = AF_NETLINK; + while ((r = sendto(sd, buf, buflen, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &nladdr, + sizeof(nladdr))) < buflen) { + if (r > 0) { + buf += r; + buflen -= r; + } else if (errno != EAGAIN) + return -1; + } + return 0; +} + + +/* + * Probe the controller in genetlink to find the family id + * for the TASKSTATS family + */ +static int get_family_id(int sd) +{ + struct { + struct nlmsghdr n; + struct genlmsghdr g; + char buf[256]; + } ans; + + int id = 0, rc; + struct nlattr *na; + int rep_len; + + strcpy(name, TASKSTATS_GENL_NAME); + rc = send_cmd(sd, GENL_ID_CTRL, getpid(), CTRL_CMD_GETFAMILY, + CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME, (void *)name, + strlen(TASKSTATS_GENL_NAME)+1); + if (rc < 0) + return 0; /* sendto() failure? */ + + rep_len = recv(sd, &ans, sizeof(ans), 0); + if (ans.n.nlmsg_type == NLMSG_ERROR || + (rep_len < 0) || !NLMSG_OK((&ans.n), rep_len)) + return 0; + + na = (struct nlattr *) GENLMSG_DATA(&ans); + na = (struct nlattr *) ((char *) na + NLA_ALIGN(na->nla_len)); + if (na->nla_type == CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_ID) { + id = *(__u16 *) NLA_DATA(na); + } + return id; +} + +#define average_ms(t, c) (t / 1000000ULL / (c ? c : 1)) + +static void print_delayacct(struct taskstats *t) +{ + printf("\n\nCPU %15s%15s%15s%15s%15s\n" + " %15llu%15llu%15llu%15llu%15.3fms\n" + "IO %15s%15s%15s\n" + " %15llu%15llu%15llums\n" + "SWAP %15s%15s%15s\n" + " %15llu%15llu%15llums\n" + "RECLAIM %12s%15s%15s\n" + " %15llu%15llu%15llums\n", + "count", "real total", "virtual total", + "delay total", "delay average", + (unsigned long long)t->cpu_count, + (unsigned long long)t->cpu_run_real_total, + (unsigned long long)t->cpu_run_virtual_total, + (unsigned long long)t->cpu_delay_total, + average_ms((double)t->cpu_delay_total, t->cpu_count), + "count", "delay total", "delay average", + (unsigned long long)t->blkio_count, + (unsigned long long)t->blkio_delay_total, + average_ms(t->blkio_delay_total, t->blkio_count), + "count", "delay total", "delay average", + (unsigned long long)t->swapin_count, + (unsigned long long)t->swapin_delay_total, + average_ms(t->swapin_delay_total, t->swapin_count), + "count", "delay total", "delay average", + (unsigned long long)t->freepages_count, + (unsigned long long)t->freepages_delay_total, + average_ms(t->freepages_delay_total, t->freepages_count)); +} + +static void task_context_switch_counts(struct taskstats *t) +{ + printf("\n\nTask %15s%15s\n" + " %15llu%15llu\n", + "voluntary", "nonvoluntary", + (unsigned long long)t->nvcsw, (unsigned long long)t->nivcsw); +} + +static void print_cgroupstats(struct cgroupstats *c) +{ + printf("sleeping %llu, blocked %llu, running %llu, stopped %llu, " + "uninterruptible %llu\n", (unsigned long long)c->nr_sleeping, + (unsigned long long)c->nr_io_wait, + (unsigned long long)c->nr_running, + (unsigned long long)c->nr_stopped, + (unsigned long long)c->nr_uninterruptible); +} + + +static void print_ioacct(struct taskstats *t) +{ + printf("%s: read=%llu, write=%llu, cancelled_write=%llu\n", + t->ac_comm, + (unsigned long long)t->read_bytes, + (unsigned long long)t->write_bytes, + (unsigned long long)t->cancelled_write_bytes); +} + +int main(int argc, char *argv[]) +{ + int c, rc, rep_len, aggr_len, len2; + int cmd_type = TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_UNSPEC; + __u16 id; + __u32 mypid; + + struct nlattr *na; + int nl_sd = -1; + int len = 0; + pid_t tid = 0; + pid_t rtid = 0; + + int fd = 0; + int count = 0; + int write_file = 0; + int maskset = 0; + char *logfile = NULL; + int loop = 0; + int containerset = 0; + char containerpath[1024]; + int cfd = 0; + int forking = 0; + sigset_t sigset; + + struct msgtemplate msg; + + while (!forking) { + c = getopt(argc, argv, "qdiw:r:m:t:p:vlC:c:"); + if (c < 0) + break; + + switch (c) { + case 'd': + printf("print delayacct stats ON\n"); + print_delays = 1; + break; + case 'i': + printf("printing IO accounting\n"); + print_io_accounting = 1; + break; + case 'q': + printf("printing task/process context switch rates\n"); + print_task_context_switch_counts = 1; + break; + case 'C': + containerset = 1; + strncpy(containerpath, optarg, strlen(optarg) + 1); + break; + case 'w': + logfile = strdup(optarg); + printf("write to file %s\n", logfile); + write_file = 1; + break; + case 'r': + rcvbufsz = atoi(optarg); + printf("receive buf size %d\n", rcvbufsz); + if (rcvbufsz < 0) + err(1, "Invalid rcv buf size\n"); + break; + case 'm': + strncpy(cpumask, optarg, sizeof(cpumask)); + maskset = 1; + printf("cpumask %s maskset %d\n", cpumask, maskset); + break; + case 't': + tid = atoi(optarg); + if (!tid) + err(1, "Invalid tgid\n"); + cmd_type = TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID; + break; + case 'p': + tid = atoi(optarg); + if (!tid) + err(1, "Invalid pid\n"); + cmd_type = TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID; + break; + case 'c': + + /* Block SIGCHLD for sigwait() later */ + if (sigemptyset(&sigset) == -1) + err(1, "Failed to empty sigset"); + if (sigaddset(&sigset, SIGCHLD)) + err(1, "Failed to set sigchld in sigset"); + sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &sigset, NULL); + + /* fork/exec a child */ + tid = fork(); + if (tid < 0) + err(1, "Fork failed\n"); + if (tid == 0) + if (execvp(argv[optind - 1], + &argv[optind - 1]) < 0) + exit(-1); + + /* Set the command type and avoid further processing */ + cmd_type = TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID; + forking = 1; + break; + case 'v': + printf("debug on\n"); + dbg = 1; + break; + case 'l': + printf("listen forever\n"); + loop = 1; + break; + default: + usage(); + exit(-1); + } + } + + if (write_file) { + fd = open(logfile, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, + S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH); + if (fd == -1) { + perror("Cannot open output file\n"); + exit(1); + } + } + + if ((nl_sd = create_nl_socket(NETLINK_GENERIC)) < 0) + err(1, "error creating Netlink socket\n"); + + + mypid = getpid(); + id = get_family_id(nl_sd); + if (!id) { + fprintf(stderr, "Error getting family id, errno %d\n", errno); + goto err; + } + PRINTF("family id %d\n", id); + + if (maskset) { + rc = send_cmd(nl_sd, id, mypid, TASKSTATS_CMD_GET, + TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_REGISTER_CPUMASK, + &cpumask, strlen(cpumask) + 1); + PRINTF("Sent register cpumask, retval %d\n", rc); + if (rc < 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "error sending register cpumask\n"); + goto err; + } + } + + if (tid && containerset) { + fprintf(stderr, "Select either -t or -C, not both\n"); + goto err; + } + + /* + * If we forked a child, wait for it to exit. Cannot use waitpid() + * as all the delicious data would be reaped as part of the wait + */ + if (tid && forking) { + int sig_received; + sigwait(&sigset, &sig_received); + } + + if (tid) { + rc = send_cmd(nl_sd, id, mypid, TASKSTATS_CMD_GET, + cmd_type, &tid, sizeof(__u32)); + PRINTF("Sent pid/tgid, retval %d\n", rc); + if (rc < 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "error sending tid/tgid cmd\n"); + goto done; + } + } + + if (containerset) { + cfd = open(containerpath, O_RDONLY); + if (cfd < 0) { + perror("error opening container file"); + goto err; + } + rc = send_cmd(nl_sd, id, mypid, CGROUPSTATS_CMD_GET, + CGROUPSTATS_CMD_ATTR_FD, &cfd, sizeof(__u32)); + if (rc < 0) { + perror("error sending cgroupstats command"); + goto err; + } + } + if (!maskset && !tid && !containerset) { + usage(); + goto err; + } + + do { + rep_len = recv(nl_sd, &msg, sizeof(msg), 0); + PRINTF("received %d bytes\n", rep_len); + + if (rep_len < 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "nonfatal reply error: errno %d\n", + errno); + continue; + } + if (msg.n.nlmsg_type == NLMSG_ERROR || + !NLMSG_OK((&msg.n), rep_len)) { + struct nlmsgerr *err = NLMSG_DATA(&msg); + fprintf(stderr, "fatal reply error, errno %d\n", + err->error); + goto done; + } + + PRINTF("nlmsghdr size=%zu, nlmsg_len=%d, rep_len=%d\n", + sizeof(struct nlmsghdr), msg.n.nlmsg_len, rep_len); + + + rep_len = GENLMSG_PAYLOAD(&msg.n); + + na = (struct nlattr *) GENLMSG_DATA(&msg); + len = 0; + while (len < rep_len) { + len += NLA_ALIGN(na->nla_len); + switch (na->nla_type) { + case TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_TGID: + /* Fall through */ + case TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID: + aggr_len = NLA_PAYLOAD(na->nla_len); + len2 = 0; + /* For nested attributes, na follows */ + na = (struct nlattr *) NLA_DATA(na); + done = 0; + while (len2 < aggr_len) { + switch (na->nla_type) { + case TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID: + rtid = *(int *) NLA_DATA(na); + if (print_delays) + printf("PID\t%d\n", rtid); + break; + case TASKSTATS_TYPE_TGID: + rtid = *(int *) NLA_DATA(na); + if (print_delays) + printf("TGID\t%d\n", rtid); + break; + case TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: + count++; + if (print_delays) + print_delayacct((struct taskstats *) NLA_DATA(na)); + if (print_io_accounting) + print_ioacct((struct taskstats *) NLA_DATA(na)); + if (print_task_context_switch_counts) + task_context_switch_counts((struct taskstats *) NLA_DATA(na)); + if (fd) { + if (write(fd, NLA_DATA(na), na->nla_len) < 0) { + err(1,"write error\n"); + } + } + if (!loop) + goto done; + break; + default: + fprintf(stderr, "Unknown nested" + " nla_type %d\n", + na->nla_type); + break; + } + len2 += NLA_ALIGN(na->nla_len); + na = (struct nlattr *) ((char *) na + len2); + } + break; + + case CGROUPSTATS_TYPE_CGROUP_STATS: + print_cgroupstats(NLA_DATA(na)); + break; + default: + fprintf(stderr, "Unknown nla_type %d\n", + na->nla_type); + case TASKSTATS_TYPE_NULL: + break; + } + na = (struct nlattr *) (GENLMSG_DATA(&msg) + len); + } + } while (loop); +done: + if (maskset) { + rc = send_cmd(nl_sd, id, mypid, TASKSTATS_CMD_GET, + TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_DEREGISTER_CPUMASK, + &cpumask, strlen(cpumask) + 1); + printf("Sent deregister mask, retval %d\n", rc); + if (rc < 0) + err(rc, "error sending deregister cpumask\n"); + } +err: + close(nl_sd); + if (fd) + close(fd); + if (cfd) + close(cfd); + return 0; +} diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e7512c06 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +The struct taskstats +-------------------- + +This document contains an explanation of the struct taskstats fields. + +There are three different groups of fields in the struct taskstats: + +1) Common and basic accounting fields + If CONFIG_TASKSTATS is set, the taskstats interface is enabled and + the common fields and basic accounting fields are collected for + delivery at do_exit() of a task. +2) Delay accounting fields + These fields are placed between + /* Delay accounting fields start */ + and + /* Delay accounting fields end */ + Their values are collected if CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT is set. +3) Extended accounting fields + These fields are placed between + /* Extended accounting fields start */ + and + /* Extended accounting fields end */ + Their values are collected if CONFIG_TASK_XACCT is set. + +4) Per-task and per-thread context switch count statistics + +5) Time accounting for SMT machines + +6) Extended delay accounting fields for memory reclaim + +Future extension should add fields to the end of the taskstats struct, and +should not change the relative position of each field within the struct. + + +struct taskstats { + +1) Common and basic accounting fields: + /* The version number of this struct. This field is always set to + * TAKSTATS_VERSION, which is defined in <linux/taskstats.h>. + * Each time the struct is changed, the value should be incremented. + */ + __u16 version; + + /* The exit code of a task. */ + __u32 ac_exitcode; /* Exit status */ + + /* The accounting flags of a task as defined in <linux/acct.h> + * Defined values are AFORK, ASU, ACOMPAT, ACORE, and AXSIG. + */ + __u8 ac_flag; /* Record flags */ + + /* The value of task_nice() of a task. */ + __u8 ac_nice; /* task_nice */ + + /* The name of the command that started this task. */ + char ac_comm[TS_COMM_LEN]; /* Command name */ + + /* The scheduling discipline as set in task->policy field. */ + __u8 ac_sched; /* Scheduling discipline */ + + __u8 ac_pad[3]; + __u32 ac_uid; /* User ID */ + __u32 ac_gid; /* Group ID */ + __u32 ac_pid; /* Process ID */ + __u32 ac_ppid; /* Parent process ID */ + + /* The time when a task begins, in [secs] since 1970. */ + __u32 ac_btime; /* Begin time [sec since 1970] */ + + /* The elapsed time of a task, in [usec]. */ + __u64 ac_etime; /* Elapsed time [usec] */ + + /* The user CPU time of a task, in [usec]. */ + __u64 ac_utime; /* User CPU time [usec] */ + + /* The system CPU time of a task, in [usec]. */ + __u64 ac_stime; /* System CPU time [usec] */ + + /* The minor page fault count of a task, as set in task->min_flt. */ + __u64 ac_minflt; /* Minor Page Fault Count */ + + /* The major page fault count of a task, as set in task->maj_flt. */ + __u64 ac_majflt; /* Major Page Fault Count */ + + +2) Delay accounting fields: + /* Delay accounting fields start + * + * All values, until the comment "Delay accounting fields end" are + * available only if delay accounting is enabled, even though the last + * few fields are not delays + * + * xxx_count is the number of delay values recorded + * xxx_delay_total is the corresponding cumulative delay in nanoseconds + * + * xxx_delay_total wraps around to zero on overflow + * xxx_count incremented regardless of overflow + */ + + /* Delay waiting for cpu, while runnable + * count, delay_total NOT updated atomically + */ + __u64 cpu_count; + __u64 cpu_delay_total; + + /* Following four fields atomically updated using task->delays->lock */ + + /* Delay waiting for synchronous block I/O to complete + * does not account for delays in I/O submission + */ + __u64 blkio_count; + __u64 blkio_delay_total; + + /* Delay waiting for page fault I/O (swap in only) */ + __u64 swapin_count; + __u64 swapin_delay_total; + + /* cpu "wall-clock" running time + * On some architectures, value will adjust for cpu time stolen + * from the kernel in involuntary waits due to virtualization. + * Value is cumulative, in nanoseconds, without a corresponding count + * and wraps around to zero silently on overflow + */ + __u64 cpu_run_real_total; + + /* cpu "virtual" running time + * Uses time intervals seen by the kernel i.e. no adjustment + * for kernel's involuntary waits due to virtualization. + * Value is cumulative, in nanoseconds, without a corresponding count + * and wraps around to zero silently on overflow + */ + __u64 cpu_run_virtual_total; + /* Delay accounting fields end */ + /* version 1 ends here */ + + +3) Extended accounting fields + /* Extended accounting fields start */ + + /* Accumulated RSS usage in duration of a task, in MBytes-usecs. + * The current rss usage is added to this counter every time + * a tick is charged to a task's system time. So, at the end we + * will have memory usage multiplied by system time. Thus an + * average usage per system time unit can be calculated. + */ + __u64 coremem; /* accumulated RSS usage in MB-usec */ + + /* Accumulated virtual memory usage in duration of a task. + * Same as acct_rss_mem1 above except that we keep track of VM usage. + */ + __u64 virtmem; /* accumulated VM usage in MB-usec */ + + /* High watermark of RSS usage in duration of a task, in KBytes. */ + __u64 hiwater_rss; /* High-watermark of RSS usage */ + + /* High watermark of VM usage in duration of a task, in KBytes. */ + __u64 hiwater_vm; /* High-water virtual memory usage */ + + /* The following four fields are I/O statistics of a task. */ + __u64 read_char; /* bytes read */ + __u64 write_char; /* bytes written */ + __u64 read_syscalls; /* read syscalls */ + __u64 write_syscalls; /* write syscalls */ + + /* Extended accounting fields end */ + +4) Per-task and per-thread statistics + __u64 nvcsw; /* Context voluntary switch counter */ + __u64 nivcsw; /* Context involuntary switch counter */ + +5) Time accounting for SMT machines + __u64 ac_utimescaled; /* utime scaled on frequency etc */ + __u64 ac_stimescaled; /* stime scaled on frequency etc */ + __u64 cpu_scaled_run_real_total; /* scaled cpu_run_real_total */ + +6) Extended delay accounting fields for memory reclaim + /* Delay waiting for memory reclaim */ + __u64 freepages_count; + __u64 freepages_delay_total; +} diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ff06b738 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +Per-task statistics interface +----------------------------- + + +Taskstats is a netlink-based interface for sending per-task and +per-process statistics from the kernel to userspace. + +Taskstats was designed for the following benefits: + +- efficiently provide statistics during lifetime of a task and on its exit +- unified interface for multiple accounting subsystems +- extensibility for use by future accounting patches + +Terminology +----------- + +"pid", "tid" and "task" are used interchangeably and refer to the standard +Linux task defined by struct task_struct. per-pid stats are the same as +per-task stats. + +"tgid", "process" and "thread group" are used interchangeably and refer to the +tasks that share an mm_struct i.e. the traditional Unix process. Despite the +use of tgid, there is no special treatment for the task that is thread group +leader - a process is deemed alive as long as it has any task belonging to it. + +Usage +----- + +To get statistics during a task's lifetime, userspace opens a unicast netlink +socket (NETLINK_GENERIC family) and sends commands specifying a pid or a tgid. +The response contains statistics for a task (if pid is specified) or the sum of +statistics for all tasks of the process (if tgid is specified). + +To obtain statistics for tasks which are exiting, the userspace listener +sends a register command and specifies a cpumask. Whenever a task exits on +one of the cpus in the cpumask, its per-pid statistics are sent to the +registered listener. Using cpumasks allows the data received by one listener +to be limited and assists in flow control over the netlink interface and is +explained in more detail below. + +If the exiting task is the last thread exiting its thread group, +an additional record containing the per-tgid stats is also sent to userspace. +The latter contains the sum of per-pid stats for all threads in the thread +group, both past and present. + +getdelays.c is a simple utility demonstrating usage of the taskstats interface +for reporting delay accounting statistics. Users can register cpumasks, +send commands and process responses, listen for per-tid/tgid exit data, +write the data received to a file and do basic flow control by increasing +receive buffer sizes. + +Interface +--------- + +The user-kernel interface is encapsulated in include/linux/taskstats.h + +To avoid this documentation becoming obsolete as the interface evolves, only +an outline of the current version is given. taskstats.h always overrides the +description here. + +struct taskstats is the common accounting structure for both per-pid and +per-tgid data. It is versioned and can be extended by each accounting subsystem +that is added to the kernel. The fields and their semantics are defined in the +taskstats.h file. + +The data exchanged between user and kernel space is a netlink message belonging +to the NETLINK_GENERIC family and using the netlink attributes interface. +The messages are in the format + + +----------+- - -+-------------+-------------------+ + | nlmsghdr | Pad | genlmsghdr | taskstats payload | + +----------+- - -+-------------+-------------------+ + + +The taskstats payload is one of the following three kinds: + +1. Commands: Sent from user to kernel. Commands to get data on +a pid/tgid consist of one attribute, of type TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID/TGID, +containing a u32 pid or tgid in the attribute payload. The pid/tgid denotes +the task/process for which userspace wants statistics. + +Commands to register/deregister interest in exit data from a set of cpus +consist of one attribute, of type +TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_REGISTER/DEREGISTER_CPUMASK and contain a cpumask in the +attribute payload. The cpumask is specified as an ascii string of +comma-separated cpu ranges e.g. to listen to exit data from cpus 1,2,3,5,7,8 +the cpumask would be "1-3,5,7-8". If userspace forgets to deregister interest +in cpus before closing the listening socket, the kernel cleans up its interest +set over time. However, for the sake of efficiency, an explicit deregistration +is advisable. + +2. Response for a command: sent from the kernel in response to a userspace +command. The payload is a series of three attributes of type: + +a) TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID/TGID : attribute containing no payload but indicates +a pid/tgid will be followed by some stats. + +b) TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID/TGID: attribute whose payload is the pid/tgid whose stats +are being returned. + +c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: attribute with a struct taskstats as payload. The +same structure is used for both per-pid and per-tgid stats. + +3. New message sent by kernel whenever a task exits. The payload consists of a + series of attributes of the following type: + +a) TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID: indicates next two attributes will be pid+stats +b) TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID: contains exiting task's pid +c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: contains the exiting task's per-pid stats +d) TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_TGID: indicates next two attributes will be tgid+stats +e) TASKSTATS_TYPE_TGID: contains tgid of process to which task belongs +f) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: contains the per-tgid stats for exiting task's process + + +per-tgid stats +-------------- + +Taskstats provides per-process stats, in addition to per-task stats, since +resource management is often done at a process granularity and aggregating task +stats in userspace alone is inefficient and potentially inaccurate (due to lack +of atomicity). + +However, maintaining per-process, in addition to per-task stats, within the +kernel has space and time overheads. To address this, the taskstats code +accumulates each exiting task's statistics into a process-wide data structure. +When the last task of a process exits, the process level data accumulated also +gets sent to userspace (along with the per-task data). + +When a user queries to get per-tgid data, the sum of all other live threads in +the group is added up and added to the accumulated total for previously exited +threads of the same thread group. + +Extending taskstats +------------------- + +There are two ways to extend the taskstats interface to export more +per-task/process stats as patches to collect them get added to the kernel +in future: + +1. Adding more fields to the end of the existing struct taskstats. Backward + compatibility is ensured by the version number within the + structure. Userspace will use only the fields of the struct that correspond + to the version its using. + +2. Defining separate statistic structs and using the netlink attributes + interface to return them. Since userspace processes each netlink attribute + independently, it can always ignore attributes whose type it does not + understand (because it is using an older version of the interface). + + +Choosing between 1. and 2. is a matter of trading off flexibility and +overhead. If only a few fields need to be added, then 1. is the preferable +path since the kernel and userspace don't need to incur the overhead of +processing new netlink attributes. But if the new fields expand the existing +struct too much, requiring disparate userspace accounting utilities to +unnecessarily receive large structures whose fields are of no interest, then +extending the attributes structure would be worthwhile. + +Flow control for taskstats +-------------------------- + +When the rate of task exits becomes large, a listener may not be able to keep +up with the kernel's rate of sending per-tid/tgid exit data leading to data +loss. This possibility gets compounded when the taskstats structure gets +extended and the number of cpus grows large. + +To avoid losing statistics, userspace should do one or more of the following: + +- increase the receive buffer sizes for the netlink sockets opened by +listeners to receive exit data. + +- create more listeners and reduce the number of cpus being listened to by +each listener. In the extreme case, there could be one listener for each cpu. +Users may also consider setting the cpu affinity of the listener to the subset +of cpus to which it listens, especially if they are listening to just one cpu. + +Despite these measures, if the userspace receives ENOBUFS error messages +indicated overflow of receive buffers, it should take measures to handle the +loss of data. + +---- |