From 97c79a38cd454602645f0470ffb444b3b75ce574 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:16:33 -0300 Subject: perf core: Per event callchain limit Additionally to being able to control the system wide maximum depth via /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack, now we are able to ask for different depths per event, using perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack for that. This uses an u16 hole at the end of perf_event_attr, that, when perf_event_attr.sample_type has the PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN, if sample_max_stack is zero, means use perf_event_max_stack, otherwise it'll be bounds checked under callchain_mutex. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: He Kuang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Milian Wolff Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Wang Nan Cc: Zefan Li Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kolmn1yo40p7jhswxwrc7rrd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- kernel/events/core.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/events/core.c') diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 050a290c72c7..79363f298445 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -8843,7 +8843,7 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, if (!event->parent) { if (event->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN) { - err = get_callchain_buffers(); + err = get_callchain_buffers(attr->sample_max_stack); if (err) goto err_addr_filters; } @@ -9165,6 +9165,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, return -EINVAL; } + if (!attr.sample_max_stack) + attr.sample_max_stack = sysctl_perf_event_max_stack; + /* * In cgroup mode, the pid argument is used to pass the fd * opened to the cgroup directory in cgroupfs. The cpu argument -- cgit v1.2.1