[DTrace-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] bpf: allocate the buffers BPF map to fit highest CPU id

[Eugene Loh]

On 1/7/26 09:19, Kris Van Hees wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 03:10:32PM -0500, Eugene Loh wrote:
>>   Reviewed-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
> Per your reporting on the 2/4 patch, and further testing, the array map needs
> to be created with size max_cpuid + 1 to accomodate the CPU with the highest
> id (max_cpuid).  I made that change in the patch and it resolves the issues
> with tests.
>
> If you agree, I can just make that change in the patch, retain your R-b, and
> merge.  Let me know...

Yes, I agree.

>> On 12/17/25 00:10, Kris Van Hees wrote:
>>> Even when less than the possible number of CPUs are online, the 'buffers'
>>> BPF map should be allocated based on the highest possible CPU id because
>>> probe data is written to the bufer that corresponds to a given CPU id,
>>> which could be part of non-sequential CPU id configurations.
>>>
>>> The observed problem was on a system with 128 possible CPUs (0-127), but
>>> only CPUs 0-7,100-107 were online.  The 'buffers' BPF map was created with
>>> space to hold 16 trace data buffers (one for each online CPU), and since it
>>> is an array map, this caused the trace buffers for CPUs 100-107 to fail to
>>> allocate buffers, which in turn caused any trace data generated for those
>>> CPUs never to get reported.  Since 'buffers' is an array map accessed by
>>> CPU id, enough space must be allocated to accomodate the highest online
>>> CPU id.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees at oracle.com>
>>> ---
>>>    libdtrace/dt_bpf.c | 2 +-
>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/libdtrace/dt_bpf.c b/libdtrace/dt_bpf.c
>>> index 0a57b7d2..6568a572 100644
>>> --- a/libdtrace/dt_bpf.c
>>> +++ b/libdtrace/dt_bpf.c
>>> @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ gmap_create_buffers(dtrace_hdl_t *dtp)
>>>    {
>>>    	return create_gmap(dtp, "buffers", BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERF_EVENT_ARRAY,
>>>    			   sizeof(uint32_t), sizeof(uint32_t),
>>> -			   dtp->dt_conf.num_online_cpus);
>>> +			   dtp->dt_conf.max_cpuid);
>>>    }
>>>    /*