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>
Function graph tracer modifies a return address (LR) in a stack frame
to hook a function return. This will result in many useless entries
(return_to_handler) showing up in
a) a stack tracer's output
b) perf call graph (with perf record -g)
c) dump_backtrace (at panic et al.)
For example, in case of a),
$ echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
$ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_trace_enabled
$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace
Depth Size Location (54 entries)
----- ---- --------
0) 4504 16 gic_raise_softirq+0x28/0x150
1) 4488 80 smp_cross_call+0x38/0xb8
2) 4408 48 return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
3) 4360 32 return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
...
In case of b),
$ echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
$ perf record -e mem:XXX:x -ag -- sleep 10
$ perf report
...
| | |--0.22%-- 0x550f8
| | | 0x10888
| | | el0_svc_naked
| | | sys_openat
| | | return_to_handler
| | | return_to_handler
...
In case of c),
$ echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
$ echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
...
Call trace:
[<ffffffc00044d3ac>] sysrq_handle_crash+0x24/0x30
[<ffffffc000092250>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
[<ffffffc000092250>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
...
This patch replaces such entries with real addresses preserved in
current->ret_stack[] at unwind_frame(). This way, we can cover all
the cases.
Reviewed-by: Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
[will: fixed minor context changes conflicting with irq stack bits]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Function graph tracer modifies a return address (LR) in a stack frame
to hook a function's return. This will result in many useless entries
(return_to_handler) showing up in a call stack list.
We will fix this problem in a later patch ("arm64: ftrace: fix a stack
tracer's output under function graph tracer"). But since real return
addresses are saved in ret_stack[] array in struct task_struct,
unwind functions need to be notified of, in addition to a stack pointer
address, which task is being traced in order to find out real return
addresses.
This patch extends unwind functions' interfaces by adding an extra
argument of a pointer to task_struct.
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
We currently bundle the callchain handling code with the PMU code,
despite the fact the two are distinct, and the former can be useful even
in the absence of the latter.
Follow the example of arch/arm and factor the callchain handling into
its own file dependent on CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS rather than
CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo