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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-04-28 13:16:33 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-05-30 12:41:44 -0300
commit97c79a38cd454602645f0470ffb444b3b75ce574 (patch)
tree40e427e9c76c5e4e1a5f2da1f3ec81e34223fa9b /include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
parent480ca357fd7f86a381a5b35a8157aa176eddbed4 (diff)
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 <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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/n/tip-kolmn1yo40p7jhswxwrc7rrd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 36ce552cf6a9..c66a485a24ac 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -276,6 +276,9 @@ enum perf_event_read_format {
/*
* Hardware event_id to monitor via a performance monitoring event:
+ *
+ * @sample_max_stack: Max number of frame pointers in a callchain,
+ * should be < /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
*/
struct perf_event_attr {
@@ -385,7 +388,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
* Wakeup watermark for AUX area
*/
__u32 aux_watermark;
- __u32 __reserved_2; /* align to __u64 */
+ __u16 sample_max_stack;
+ __u16 __reserved_2; /* align to __u64 */
};
#define perf_flags(attr) (*(&(attr)->read_format + 1))