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yifhao opened this issue Dec 6, 2021 · 7 comments
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cmd/trace: add a name/desc to goroutines which are inactive when get a pprof trace #49994

yifhao opened this issue Dec 6, 2021 · 7 comments
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yifhao commented Dec 6, 2021

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
nothing to do with go version

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output
$ go env
nothing to do with go env

What did you do?

I got a pprof trace, then watch it on browser. I saw the last line 'N=xxx' with no link or name.
it's easy to make a mistake about what it is meaning, many people may think it's the total number of goroutines.

What did you expect to see?

I read the source code, and then find: the last line is the num of goroutines which are created before trace taken, and inactive during the trace.

I think may add a name/desc to it, like: inactive when trace.
in httpGoroutines func add:
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and then see:
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What did you see instead?

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@seankhliao seankhliao changed the title cmd/trace/goroutines.go: add a name/desc to goroutines which are inactive when get a pprof trace cmd/trace: add a name/desc to goroutines which are inactive when get a pprof trace Dec 6, 2021
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cc @mknyszek @prattmic

@seankhliao seankhliao added the NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. label Dec 6, 2021
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yifhao commented Dec 6, 2021 •
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cmd/trace/goroutines.go

var templGoroutines = template.Must(template.New("").Parse(`
<html>
<body>
Goroutines: <br>
{{range $}}
  <a href="/goroutine?id={{.ID}}">{{.Name}}</a> N={{.N}} <br>
{{end}}
</body>
</html>
`))

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a href tag without text which means no action in tracing will display a line like this in browser .
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@prattmic prattmic added this to the Go1.19 milestone Dec 6, 2021
@prattmic prattmic added NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. and removed NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. labels Dec 6, 2021
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prattmic commented Dec 6, 2021

Thanks for the report. I think your suggested fix is reasonable, feel free to send a CL (note we are in freeze and thus won't submit before ~Feb).

Ideally we'd do even better and actually attach each goroutine's stack trace to the initial EvGoCreate. This should be possible since the world is stopped, but I could see that making starting tracing take a lot longer, especially with 5000+ goroutines, which I imagine is why it was avoided in the first place.

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prattmic commented Dec 6, 2021 •
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Ideally we'd do even better and actually attach each goroutine's stack trace to the initial EvGoCreate. This should be possible since the world is stopped, but I could see that making starting tracing take a lot longer, especially with 5000+ goroutines, which I imagine is why it was avoided in the first place.

Actually, we already have gp.startpc with the initial goroutine entrypoint (in fact TraceStart even uses it as the "stack id" for EvGoCreate). If the cost is low enough, we could findfunc(gp.startpc) and include a func name string id along with the EvGoCreate event.

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Moving to Backlog. Please comment if you disagree. Thanks.

@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor modified the milestones: Go1.19, Backlog Jun 24, 2022
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Change https://go.dev/cl/425042 mentions this issue: cmd/trace: display goroutines (PC=0) with clearer description

gopherbot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Aug 25, 2022
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cmd/trace: display goroutines (PC=0) with clearer description
04eb359 
This PR fixes: #54425 #49994

Change-Id: Id60a3ba6930f8e29b12b6d8f80945decd2ce31bc
GitHub-Last-Rev: 60a040a
GitHub-Pull-Request: #54575
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/425042
Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Pratt <mpratt@google.com>
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The above CL had a malformed "fixes" line; this issue should be closed now that it's merged.

@seankhliao seankhliao moved this to Done in Release Blockers Aug 25, 2022
rajbarik pushed a commit to rajbarik/go that referenced this issue Sep 1, 2022
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cmd/trace: display goroutines (PC=0) with clearer description
d9deeea 
This PR fixes: golang#54425 golang#49994

Change-Id: Id60a3ba6930f8e29b12b6d8f80945decd2ce31bc
GitHub-Last-Rev: 60a040a
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang#54575
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/425042
Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Pratt <mpratt@google.com>
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