Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
[XRay] Improve FDR trace handling and error messaging
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
Summary:
This change covers a number of things spanning LLVM and compiler-rt,
which are related in a non-trivial way.

In LLVM, we have a library that handles the FDR mode even log loading,
which uses C++'s runtime polymorphism feature to better faithfully
represent the events that are written down by the FDR mode runtime. We
do this by interpreting a trace that's serliased in a common format
agreed upon by both the trace loading library and the FDR mode runtime.
This library is under active development, which consists of features
allowing us to reconstitute a higher-level event log.

This event log is used by the conversion and visualisation tools we have
for interpreting XRay traces.

One of the tools we have is a diagnostic tool in llvm-xray called
`fdr-dump` which we've been using to debug our expectations of what the
FDR runtime should be writing and what the logical FDR event log
structures are. We use this fairly extensively to reason about why some
non-trivial traces we're generating with FDR mode runtimes fail to
convert or fail to parse correctly.

One of these failures we've found in manual debugging of some of the
traces we've seen involve an inconsistency between the buffer extents (a
record indicating how many bytes to follow are part of a logical
thread's event log) and the record of the bytes written into the log --
sometimes it turns out the data could be garbage, due to buffers being
recycled, but sometimes we're seeing the buffer extent indicating a log
is "shorter" than the actual records associated with the buffer. This
case happens particularly with function entry records with a call
argument.

This change for now updates the FDR mode runtime to write the bytes for
the function call and arg record before updating the buffer extents
atomically, allowing multiple threads to see a consistent view of the
data in the buffer using the atomic counter associated with a buffer.
What we're trying to prevent here is partial updates where we see the
intermediary updates to the buffer extents (function record size then
call argument record size) becoming observable from another thread, for
instance, one doing the serialization/flushing.

To do both diagnose this issue properly, we need to be able to honour
the extents being set in the `BufferExtents` records marking the
beginning of the logical buffers when reading an FDR trace. Since LLVM
doesn't use C++'s RTTI mechanism, we instead follow the advice in the
documentation for LLVM Style RTTI
(https://llvm.org/docs/HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.html). We then rely on
this RTTI feature to ensure that our file-based record producer (our
streaming "deserializer") can honour the extents of individual buffers
as we interpret traces.

This also sets us up to be able to eventually do smart
skipping/continuation of FDR logs, seeking instead to find BufferExtents
records in cases where we find potentially recoverable errors. In the
meantime, we make this change to operate in a strict mode when reading
logical buffers with extent records.

Reviewers: mboerger

Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits, jfb

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54201

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@346473 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
  • Loading branch information
deanberris committed Nov 9, 2018
1 parent 244a2cf commit 5de005f
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Showing 7 changed files with 449 additions and 101 deletions.
5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions include/llvm/XRay/FDRRecordProducer.h
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ class FileBasedRecordProducer : public RecordProducer {
const XRayFileHeader &Header;
DataExtractor &E;
uint32_t &OffsetPtr;
uint32_t CurrentBufferBytes = 0;

// Helper function which gets the next record by speculatively reading through
// the log, finding a buffer extents record.
Expected<std::unique_ptr<Record>> findNextBufferExtent();

public:
FileBasedRecordProducer(const XRayFileHeader &FH, DataExtractor &DE,
Expand Down
Loading

0 comments on commit 5de005f

Please sign in to comment.