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Now that bcc has USDT support, a tool can be written to report on user lock contention using the builtin libpthread static probe points. These:
# /bcc/tools/tplist.py -p 28651
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/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:pthread_start
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:pthread_create
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:pthread_join
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:pthread_join_ret
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:mutex_init
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:mutex_destroy
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:mutex_acquired
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:mutex_entry
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:mutex_timedlock_entry
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:mutex_timedlock_acquired
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:mutex_release
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:rwlock_destroy
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:rdlock_acquire_read
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:rdlock_entry
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:wrlock_acquire_write
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:wrlock_entry
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:rwlock_unlock
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:cond_init
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:cond_destroy
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:cond_wait
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:cond_timedwait
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:cond_signal
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:cond_broadcast
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:lll_lock_wait_private
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so libpthread:lll_lock_wait
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(Does a tool already exist that uses these? They've been in libpthread for a while now.)
Such a tool could measure, for each of the lock types:
- lock wait time (contention): measured in different ways. As milliseconds per second, as a histogram showing the distribution of each event. And by lock type.
- lock hold time: measured in different ways...
- optionally include stack traces (that requires Linux 4.6+).
As examples of how these can be presented, I liked the Solaris lockstat/plockstat outputs. Here's some old screenshots I posted: