kernel_optimize_test/arch/xtensa
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 xtensa: xtfpga: fix earlycon endianness 2016-03-11 08:53:32 +00:00
configs Xtensa patchset for 4.4 2015-11-09 16:32:13 -08:00
include Xtensa improvements for 4.6: 2016-03-20 12:22:07 -07:00
kernel perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl 2016-04-27 10:20:39 -03:00
lib
mm Xtensa improvements for 4.6: 2016-03-20 12:22:07 -07:00
oprofile
platforms Xtensa improvements for 4.6: 2016-03-20 12:22:07 -07:00
variants xtensa: add test_kc705_hifi variant 2016-03-17 21:17:04 +00:00
Kconfig Xtensa improvements for 4.6: 2016-03-20 12:22:07 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile xtensa: define CONFIG_CPU_{BIG,LITTLE}_ENDIAN 2016-03-11 08:53:31 +00:00