Added perf.py a wrapper around Linux's perf tool for perf sampling

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This provides 2 things:

1. perf integration with the bench/test runners - This is a bit tricky
   with perf as it doesn't have its own way to combine perf measurements
   across multiple processes. perf.py works around this by writing
   everything to a zip file, using flock to synchronize. As a plus, free
   compression!

2. Parsing and presentation of perf results in a format consistent with
   the other CSV-based tools. This actually ran into a surprising number of
   issues:

   - We need to process raw events to get the information we want, this
     ends up being a lot of data (~16MiB at 100Hz uncompressed), so we
     paralellize the parsing of each decompressed perf file.

   - perf reports raw addresses post-ASLR. It does provide sym+off which
     is very useful, but to find the source of static functions we need to
     reverse the ASLR by finding the delta the produces the best
     symbol<->addr matches.

   - This isn't related to perf, but decoding dwarf line-numbers is
     really complicated. You basically need to write a tiny VM.

This also turns on perf measurement by default for the bench-runner, but at a
low frequency (100 Hz). This can be decreased or removed in the future
if it causes any slowdown.

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Christopher Haster

2022-10-02 18:35:46 -05:00

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