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Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl

From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl
Date 2016-04-26 02:50 +0200
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Em Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:44:00PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:29:28PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:07:26PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:
> > > > +	{
> > > > +		.procname	= "perf_event_max_stack",
> > > > +		.data		= NULL, /* filled in by handler */
> > > > +		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_perf_event_max_stack),
> > > > +		.mode		= 0644,
> > > > +		.proc_handler	= perf_event_max_stack_handler,
> > > > +		.extra1		= &zero,
> > > > +	},
> >  
> > > you need to define a max value otherwise perf_callchain_entry__sizeof
> > > will overflow. Sure it's root only facility, but still not nice.
> > > 1M? Anything above 1M stack frames would be insane anyway.
> > > The rest looks good. Thanks!
> > 
> > Something else? ;-)
> 
> all looks good to me. Thanks a bunch!

Thanks for checking!
 
> >     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>
> >     Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
> 
> yep :)
> hopefully Brendan can give it another spin.

Agreed, and I'm calling it a day anyway, Brendan, please consider
retesting, thanks,

- Arnaldo

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[PATCH/RFC] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via  sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-21 00:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH/RFC] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2016-04-21 01:10 +0200
    [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via  sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-22 23:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2016-04-22 23:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> - 2016-04-23 00:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2016-04-23 00:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 18:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 18:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 21:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 22:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 22:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 00:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 01:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 02:10 +0200
                [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via  sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 02:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 02:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 03:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 18:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 18:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-27 15:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 22:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 23:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-27 00:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-27 15:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 00:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-27 00:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-27 15:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 02:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 00:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-27 15:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 18:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 18:30 +0200
                [tip:perf/core] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl tip-bot for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-04-27 17:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH/RFC] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via  sysctl David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> - 2016-04-21 01:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH/RFC] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-21 02:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH/RFC] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-21 13:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH/RFC] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-21 17:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH/RFC] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth  via sysctl Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-21 17:50 +0200

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