linux/arch/arm64
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo c5dfd78eb7 perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl
The default remains 127, which is good for most cases, and not even hit
most of the time, but then for some cases, as reported by Brendan, 1024+
deep frames are appearing on the radar for things like groovy, ruby.

And in some workloads putting a _lower_ cap on this may make sense. One
that is per event still needs to be put in place tho.

The new file is:

  # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  127

Chaging it:

  # echo 256 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  256

But as soon as there is some event using callchains we get:

  # echo 512 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
  #

Because we only allocate the callchain percpu data structures when there
is a user, which allows for changing the max easily, its just a matter
of having no callchain users at that point.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426002928.GB16708@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-27 10:20:39 -03:00
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boot arm64: dts: vulcan: Update PCI ranges 2016-03-30 00:26:16 +02:00
configs arm64: defconfig: updates for 4.6 2016-03-29 16:56:00 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2016-03-17 11:22:54 -07:00
include KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.6-rc4 2016-04-08 14:17:27 +02:00
kernel perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl 2016-04-27 10:20:39 -03:00
kvm arm64: KVM: Warn when PARange is less than 40 bits 2016-04-06 13:33:14 +02:00
lib arm64 updates for 4.6: 2016-03-17 20:03:47 -07:00
mm 2nd set of arm64 updates for 4.6: 2016-03-24 19:13:59 -07:00
net arm64: bpf: add extra pass to handle faulty codegen 2016-01-17 19:15:26 -05:00
xen xen/arm: introduce HYPERVISOR_platform_op on arm and arm64 2015-12-21 14:40:56 +00:00
Kconfig arm64 updates for 4.6: 2016-03-17 20:03:47 -07:00
Kconfig.debug arm64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default 2016-03-03 18:14:17 +00:00
Kconfig.platforms Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-24 10:29:44 -07:00
Makefile arm64 updates for 4.6: 2016-03-17 20:03:47 -07:00