gdb/linux-nat: get core count using /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible

I get this test failure on my CI;

  FAIL: gdb.base/info-os.exp: get process list

The particularity of this setup is that builds are done in containers
who are allocated 4 CPUs on a machine that has 40.  The code in
nat/linux-osdata.c fails to properly fetch the core number for each
task.

linux_xfer_osdata_processes uses `sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)`, which
returns 4, so it allocates an array of 4 integers.  However, the core
numbers read from /proc/pid/task/tid/stat, by function
linux_common_core_of_thread, returns a value anywhere between 0 and 39.
The core numbers above 3 are therefore ignored, many processes end up
with no core value, and the regexp in the test doesn't match (it
requires an integer as the core field).

The way this the CPUs are exposed to the container is that the container
sees 40 CPUs "present" and "possible", but only 4 arbitrary CPUs
actually online:

    root@ci-node-jammy-amd64-04-08:~# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/present
    0-39
    root@ci-node-jammy-amd64-04-08:~# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/online
    5,11,24,31
    root@ci-node-jammy-amd64-04-08:~# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
    0-39

The solution proposed in this patch is to find out the number of
possible CPUs using /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible.  In practice, this
will probably always contain `0-N`, where N is the number of CPUs, minus
one.  But the documentation [1] doesn't such guarantee, so I'll assume
that it can contain a more complex range list such as `2,4-31,32-63`,
like the other files in that directory can have.  The solution is to
iterate over these numbers to find the highest possible CPU id, and
use that that value plus one as the size of the array to allocate.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst

Change-Id: I7abce2e43b000c1327fa94cd7b99d46e49d7ccf3
This commit is contained in:
Simon Marchi
2022-11-04 10:07:09 -04:00
parent 7a283d9cf5
commit 2b142a9f83
+66 -4
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@@ -271,6 +271,68 @@ get_cores_used_by_process (PID_T pid, int *cores, const int num_cores)
return task_count;
}
/* get_core_array_size helper that uses /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible. */
static gdb::optional<size_t>
get_core_array_size_using_sys_possible ()
{
gdb::optional<std::string> possible
= read_text_file_to_string ("/sys/devices/system/cpu/possible");
if (!possible.has_value ())
return {};
/* The format is documented here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst
For the purpose of this function, we assume the file can contain a complex
set of ranges, like `2,4-31,32-63`. Read all number, disregarding commands
and dashes, in order to find the largest possible core number. The size
of the array to allocate is that plus one. */
unsigned long max_id = 0;
for (std::string::size_type start = 0; start < possible->size ();)
{
const char *start_p = &(*possible)[start];
char *end_p;
/* Parse one number. */
errno = 0;
unsigned long id = strtoul (start_p, &end_p, 10);
if (errno != 0)
return {};
max_id = std::max (max_id, id);
start += end_p - start_p;
gdb_assert (start <= possible->size ());
/* Skip comma, dash, or new line (if we are at the end). */
++start;
}
return max_id + 1;
}
/* Return the array size to allocate in order to be able to index it using
CPU core numbers. This may be more than the actual number of cores if
the core numbers are not contiguous. */
static size_t
get_core_array_size ()
{
/* Using /sys/.../possible is prefered, because it handles the case where
we are in a container that has access to a subset of the host's cores.
It will return a size that considers all the CPU cores available to the
host. If that fials for some reason, fall back to sysconf. */
gdb::optional<size_t> count = get_core_array_size_using_sys_possible ();
if (count.has_value ())
return *count;
return sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
}
static void
linux_xfer_osdata_processes (struct buffer *buffer)
{
@@ -281,7 +343,7 @@ linux_xfer_osdata_processes (struct buffer *buffer)
dirp = opendir ("/proc");
if (dirp)
{
const int num_cores = sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
const int core_array_size = get_core_array_size ();
struct dirent *dp;
while ((dp = readdir (dirp)) != NULL)
@@ -308,10 +370,10 @@ linux_xfer_osdata_processes (struct buffer *buffer)
strcpy (user, "?");
/* Find CPU cores used by the process. */
cores = XCNEWVEC (int, num_cores);
task_count = get_cores_used_by_process (pid, cores, num_cores);
cores = XCNEWVEC (int, core_array_size);
task_count = get_cores_used_by_process (pid, cores, core_array_size);
for (i = 0; i < num_cores && task_count > 0; ++i)
for (i = 0; i < core_array_size && task_count > 0; ++i)
if (cores[i])
{
string_appendf (cores_str, "%d", i);