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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-04-27 10:16:24 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-04-27 10:29:07 -0300
commit4cb93446c587d56e2a54f4f83113daba2c0b6dee (patch)
treea251b1d510831dc071eadbbbe3e38a85fe643365 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
parentc5dfd78eb79851e278b7973031b9ca363da87a7e (diff)
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>
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@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ OPTIONS
Note that when using the --itrace option the synthesized callchain size
will override this value if the synthesized callchain size is bigger.
- Default: 127
+ Default: /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack when present, 127 otherwise.
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