linux/arch/powerpc/perf
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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req-gen powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated 2015-02-02 17:56:39 +11:00
bhrb.S powerpc/perf: Add basic assembly code to read BHRB entries on POWER8 2013-04-26 16:11:11 +10:00
callchain.c perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl 2016-04-27 10:20:39 -03:00
core-book3s.c powerpc/perf: Fix misleading comment in pmao_restore_workaround() 2016-03-10 23:00:23 +11:00
core-fsl-emb.c perf/powerpc: reset event hw state when adding it to the PMU 2015-01-29 23:44:18 -06:00
e500-pmu.c powerpc/perf: Add stalled-cycles events 2013-01-10 17:00:56 +11:00
e6500-pmu.c powerpc/perf: Add e6500 PMU driver 2013-08-07 18:38:04 -05:00
hv-24x7-catalog.h powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events 2015-02-02 17:56:38 +11:00
hv-24x7-domains.h powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events 2015-02-02 17:56:38 +11:00
hv-24x7.c powerpc updates for 4.6 2016-03-19 15:38:41 -07:00
hv-24x7.h powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Display domain indices in sysfs 2016-03-10 22:57:22 +11:00
hv-common.c powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated 2015-02-02 17:56:39 +11:00
hv-common.h perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper 2015-02-02 17:56:38 +11:00
hv-gpci-requests.h powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests 2015-02-02 17:56:39 +11:00
hv-gpci.c powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: Increase request buffer size 2016-02-10 14:30:56 +11:00
hv-gpci.h powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated 2015-02-02 17:56:39 +11:00
Makefile powerpc/perf: Add kconfig option for hypervisor provided counters 2014-03-24 09:48:32 +11:00
mpc7450-pmu.c powerpc/perf: Pass the struct perf_events down to compute_mmcr() 2014-07-28 14:30:47 +10:00
power4-pmu.c powerpc/perf: Pass the struct perf_events down to compute_mmcr() 2014-07-28 14:30:47 +10:00
power5+-pmu.c powerpc/perf: Pass the struct perf_events down to compute_mmcr() 2014-07-28 14:30:47 +10:00
power5-pmu.c powerpc/perf: Pass the struct perf_events down to compute_mmcr() 2014-07-28 14:30:47 +10:00
power6-pmu.c powerpc/perf: Pass the struct perf_events down to compute_mmcr() 2014-07-28 14:30:47 +10:00
power7-events-list.h powerpc/perf: Make some new raw event codes available in sysfs 2014-03-24 09:48:23 +11:00
power7-pmu.c powerpc/perf: Remove PME_ prefix for power7 events 2016-03-10 22:56:04 +11:00
power8-events-list.h powerpc/perf: Export Power8 generic and cache events to sysfs 2016-03-10 22:56:05 +11:00
power8-pmu.c powerpc/perf: Export Power8 generic and cache events to sysfs 2016-03-10 22:56:05 +11:00
ppc970-pmu.c powerpc/perf: Pass the struct perf_events down to compute_mmcr() 2014-07-28 14:30:47 +10:00