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// This file is part of Substrate.
// Copyright (C) Parity Technologies (UK) Ltd.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
// along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
//! This module contains a buffered semi-asynchronous stderr writer.
//!
//! Depending on how we were started writing to stderr can take a surprisingly long time.
//!
//! If the other side takes their sweet sweet time reading whatever we send them then writing
//! to stderr might block for a long time, since it is effectively a synchronous operation.
//! And every time we write to stderr we need to grab a global lock, which affects every thread
//! which also tries to log something at the same time.
//!
//! Of course we *will* be ultimately limited by how fast the recipient can ingest our logs,
//! but it's not like logging is the only thing we're doing. And we still can't entirely
//! avoid the problem of multiple threads contending for the same lock. (Well, technically
//! we could employ something like a lock-free circular buffer, but that might be like
//! killing a fly with a sledgehammer considering the complexity involved; this is only
//! a logger after all.)
//!
//! But we can try to make things a little better. We can offload actually writing to stderr
//! to another thread and flush the logs in bulk instead of doing it per-line, which should
//! reduce the amount of CPU time we waste on making syscalls and on spinning waiting for locks.
//!
//! How much this helps depends on a multitude of factors, including the hardware we're running on,
//! how much we're logging, from how many threads, which exact set of threads are logging, to what
//! stderr is actually connected to (is it a terminal emulator? a file? an UDP socket?), etc.
//!
//! In general this can reduce the real time execution time as much as 75% in certain cases, or it
//! can make absolutely no difference in others.
use parking_lot::{Condvar, Mutex, Once};
use std::{
io::Write,
sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering},
time::Duration,
};
use tracing::{Level, Metadata};
/// How many bytes of buffered logs will trigger an async flush on another thread?
const ASYNC_FLUSH_THRESHOLD: usize = 16 * 1024;
/// How many bytes of buffered logs will trigger a sync flush on the current thread?
const SYNC_FLUSH_THRESHOLD: usize = 768 * 1024;
/// How many bytes can be buffered at maximum?
const EMERGENCY_FLUSH_THRESHOLD: usize = 2 * 1024 * 1024;
/// If there isn't enough printed out this is how often the logs will be automatically flushed.
const AUTOFLUSH_EVERY: Duration = Duration::from_millis(50);
/// The least serious level at which a synchronous flush will be triggered.
const SYNC_FLUSH_LEVEL_THRESHOLD: Level = Level::ERROR;
/// The amount of time we'll block until the buffer is fully flushed on exit.
///
/// This should be completely unnecessary in normal circumstances.
const ON_EXIT_FLUSH_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5);
/// A global buffer to which we'll append all of our logs before flushing them out to stderr.
static BUFFER: Mutex<Vec<u8>> = parking_lot::const_mutex(Vec::new());
/// A spare buffer which we'll swap with the main buffer on each flush to minimize lock contention.
static SPARE_BUFFER: Mutex<Vec<u8>> = parking_lot::const_mutex(Vec::new());
/// A conditional variable used to forcefully trigger asynchronous flushes.
static ASYNC_FLUSH_CONDVAR: Condvar = Condvar::new();
static ENABLE_ASYNC_LOGGING: AtomicBool = AtomicBool::new(true);
fn flush_logs(mut buffer: parking_lot::lock_api::MutexGuard<parking_lot::RawMutex, Vec<u8>>) {
let mut spare_buffer = SPARE_BUFFER.lock();
std::mem::swap(&mut *spare_buffer, &mut *buffer);
std::mem::drop(buffer);
let stderr = std::io::stderr();
let mut stderr_lock = stderr.lock();
let _ = stderr_lock.write_all(&spare_buffer);
std::mem::drop(stderr_lock);
spare_buffer.clear();
}
fn log_autoflush_thread() {
let mut buffer = BUFFER.lock();
loop {
ASYNC_FLUSH_CONDVAR.wait_for(&mut buffer, AUTOFLUSH_EVERY);
loop {
flush_logs(buffer);
buffer = BUFFER.lock();
if buffer.len() >= ASYNC_FLUSH_THRESHOLD {
// While we were busy flushing we picked up enough logs to do another flush.
continue
} else {
break
}
}
}
}
#[cold]
fn initialize() {
std::thread::Builder::new()
.name("log-autoflush".to_owned())
.spawn(log_autoflush_thread)
.expect("thread spawning doesn't normally fail; qed");
// SAFETY: This is safe since we pass a valid pointer to `atexit`.
let errcode = unsafe { libc::atexit(on_exit) };
assert_eq!(errcode, 0, "atexit failed while setting up the logger: {}", errcode);
}
extern "C" fn on_exit() {
ENABLE_ASYNC_LOGGING.store(false, Ordering::SeqCst);
if let Some(buffer) = BUFFER.try_lock_for(ON_EXIT_FLUSH_TIMEOUT) {
flush_logs(buffer);
}
}
/// A drop-in replacement for [`std::io::stderr`] for use anywhere
/// a [`tracing_subscriber::fmt::MakeWriter`] is accepted.
pub struct MakeStderrWriter {
// A dummy field so that the structure is not publicly constructible.
_dummy: (),
}
impl Default for MakeStderrWriter {
fn default() -> Self {
static ONCE: Once = Once::new();
ONCE.call_once(initialize);
MakeStderrWriter { _dummy: () }
}
}
impl tracing_subscriber::fmt::MakeWriter<'_> for MakeStderrWriter {
type Writer = StderrWriter;
fn make_writer(&self) -> Self::Writer {
StderrWriter::new(false)
}
// The `tracing-subscriber` crate calls this for every line logged.
fn make_writer_for(&self, meta: &Metadata<'_>) -> Self::Writer {
StderrWriter::new(*meta.level() <= SYNC_FLUSH_LEVEL_THRESHOLD)
}
}
pub struct StderrWriter {
buffer: Option<parking_lot::lock_api::MutexGuard<'static, parking_lot::RawMutex, Vec<u8>>>,
sync_flush_on_drop: bool,
original_len: usize,
}
impl StderrWriter {
fn new(mut sync_flush_on_drop: bool) -> Self {
if !ENABLE_ASYNC_LOGGING.load(Ordering::Relaxed) {
sync_flush_on_drop = true;
}
// This lock isn't as expensive as it might look, since this is only called once the full
// line to be logged is already serialized into a thread-local buffer inside of the
// `tracing-subscriber` crate, and basically the only thing we'll do when holding this lock
// is to copy that over to our global shared buffer in one go in `Write::write_all` and be
// immediately dropped.
let buffer = BUFFER.lock();
StderrWriter { original_len: buffer.len(), buffer: Some(buffer), sync_flush_on_drop }
}
}
#[cold]
fn emergency_flush(buffer: &mut Vec<u8>, input: &[u8]) {
let stderr = std::io::stderr();
let mut stderr_lock = stderr.lock();
let _ = stderr_lock.write_all(buffer);
buffer.clear();
let _ = stderr_lock.write_all(input);
}
impl Write for StderrWriter {
fn write(&mut self, input: &[u8]) -> Result<usize, std::io::Error> {
let buffer = self.buffer.as_mut().expect("buffer is only None after `drop`; qed");
if buffer.len() + input.len() >= EMERGENCY_FLUSH_THRESHOLD {
// Make sure we don't blow our memory budget. Normally this should never happen,
// but there are cases where we directly print out untrusted user input which
// can potentially be megabytes in size.
emergency_flush(buffer, input);
} else {
buffer.extend_from_slice(input);
}
Ok(input.len())
}
fn write_all(&mut self, input: &[u8]) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
self.write(input).map(|_| ())
}
fn flush(&mut self) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
Ok(())
}
}
impl Drop for StderrWriter {
fn drop(&mut self) {
let buf = self.buffer.take().expect("buffer is only None after `drop`; qed");
if self.sync_flush_on_drop || buf.len() >= SYNC_FLUSH_THRESHOLD {
flush_logs(buf);
} else if self.original_len < ASYNC_FLUSH_THRESHOLD && buf.len() >= ASYNC_FLUSH_THRESHOLD {
ASYNC_FLUSH_CONDVAR.notify_one();
}
}
}