From c85b03349640b34f3545503c8429fc43005e9a92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 13:06:21 -0300 Subject: perf core: Separate accounting of contexts and real addresses in a stack trace The perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr value includes all the entries in the ip_callchain->ip[] array, real addresses and PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc}, while what the user expects is that what is in the kernel.perf_event_max_stack sysctl or in the upcoming per event perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob be honoured in terms of IP addresses in the stack trace. So allocate a bunch of extra entries for contexts, and do the accounting via perf_callchain_entry_ctx struct members. A new sysctl, kernel.perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack is also introduced for investigating possible bugs in the callchain implementation by some arch. 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: 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-3b4wnqk340c4sg4gwkfdi9yk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/uapi') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 43fc8d213472..36ce552cf6a9 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -862,6 +862,7 @@ enum perf_event_type { }; #define PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH 127 +#define PERF_MAX_CONTEXTS_PER_STACK 8 enum perf_callchain_context { PERF_CONTEXT_HV = (__u64)-32, -- cgit v1.2.3