perf tools: Set the maximum allowed stack from /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:16:24 +0000 (10:16 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:29:07 +0000 (10:29 -0300)
commit4cb93446c587d56e2a54f4f83113daba2c0b6dee
treea251b1d510831dc071eadbbbe3e38a85fe643365
parentc5dfd78eb79851e278b7973031b9ca363da87a7e
perf tools: Set the maximum allowed stack from /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack

There is an upper limit to what tooling considers a valid callchain,
and it was tied to the hardcoded value in the kernel,
PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH (127), now that this can be tuned via a sysctl,
make it read it and use that as the upper limit, falling back to
PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH for kernels where this sysctl isn't present.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yjqsd30nnkogvj5oyx9ghir9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
16 files changed:
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
tools/perf/builtin-report.c
tools/perf/builtin-script.c
tools/perf/builtin-top.c
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
tools/perf/perf.c
tools/perf/tests/hists_cumulate.c
tools/perf/tests/hists_filter.c
tools/perf/tests/hists_output.c
tools/perf/util/machine.c
tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c
tools/perf/util/util.c
tools/perf/util/util.h