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perf sched replay: Fix the EMFILE error caused by the limitation of the maximum open files

The soft maximum number of open files for a calling process is 1024,
which is defined as INR_OPEN_CUR in include/uapi/linux/fs.h, and the
hard maximum number of open files for a calling process is 4096, which
is defined as INR_OPEN_MAX in include/uapi/linux/fs.h.

Both INR_OPEN_CUR and INR_OPEN_MAX are used to limit the value of
RLIMIT_NOFILE in include/asm-generic/resource.h.

And the soft maximum number finally decides the limitation of the
maximum files which are allowed to be opened.

That is to say a process can use at most 1024 file descriptors for its
o pened files, or an EMFILE error will happen.

This error can be fixed by increasing the soft maximum number, under the
constraint that the soft maximum number can not exceed the hard maximum
number, or both soft and hard maximum number should be increased
simultaneously with privilege.

For perf sched replay, it uses sys_perf_event_open to create the file
descriptor for each of the tasks in order to handle information of perf
events.

That is to say each task needs a unique file descriptor. In x86_64,
there may be over 1024 or 4096 tasks correspoinding to the record in
perf.data, which causes that no enough file descriptors can be used.

As a result, EMFILE error happens and stops the replay process. To solve
this problem, we adaptively increase the soft and hard maximum number of
open files with a '-f' option.

Example:

Test environment: x86_64 with 160 cores

 $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
 163840
 $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
 6815744
 $ ulimit -Sn
 1024
 $ ulimit -Hn
 4096

Before this patch:

 $ perf sched replay
 ...
 task   1549 (             :163132:    163132), nr_events: 1
 task   1550 (             :163540:    163540), nr_events: 1
 task   1551 (           <unknown>:         0), nr_events: 10
 Error: sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with -1 (Too many open
 files)

After this patch:

 $ perf sched replay
 ...
 task   1549 (             :163132:    163132), nr_events: 1
 task   1550 (             :163540:    163540), nr_events: 1
 task   1551 (           <unknown>:         0), nr_events: 10
 Error: sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with -1 (Too many open
 files)
 Have a try with -f option

 $ perf sched replay -f
 ...
 task   1549 (             :163132:    163132), nr_events: 1
 task   1550 (             :163540:    163540), nr_events: 1
 task   1551 (           <unknown>:         0), nr_events: 10
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 #1  : 54.401, ravg: 54.40, cpu: 3285.21 / 3285.21
 #2  : 199.548, ravg: 68.92, cpu: 4999.65 / 3456.66
 #3  : 170.483, ravg: 79.07, cpu: 1349.94 / 3245.99
 #4  : 192.034, ravg: 90.37, cpu: 1322.88 / 3053.67
 #5  : 182.929, ravg: 99.62, cpu: 1406.51 / 2888.96
 #6  : 152.974, ravg: 104.96, cpu: 1167.54 / 2716.82
 #7  : 155.579, ravg: 110.02, cpu: 2992.53 / 2744.39
 #8  : 130.557, ravg: 112.08, cpu: 1126.43 / 2582.59
 #9  : 138.520, ravg: 114.72, cpu: 1253.22 / 2449.65
 #10 : 134.328, ravg: 116.68, cpu: 1587.95 / 2363.48

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/1427809596-29559-8-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>