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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/stackmap.c b/kernel/bpf/stackmap.c
index 499d9e933f8e..f5a19548be12 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/stackmap.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/stackmap.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static struct bpf_map *stack_map_alloc(union bpf_attr *attr)
         /* check sanity of attributes */
         if (attr->max_entries == 0 || attr->key_size != 4 ||
             value_size < 8 || value_size % 8 ||
-            value_size / 8 > PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH)
+            value_size / 8 > sysctl_perf_event_max_stack)
                 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
         /* hash table size must be power of 2 */
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ static u64 bpf_get_stackid(u64 r1, u64 r2, u64 flags, u64 r4, u64 r5)
         struct perf_callchain_entry *trace;
         struct stack_map_bucket *bucket, *new_bucket, *old_bucket;
         u32 max_depth = map->value_size / 8;
-        /* stack_map_alloc() checks that max_depth <= PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH */
-        u32 init_nr = PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH - max_depth;
+        /* stack_map_alloc() checks that max_depth <= sysctl_perf_event_max_stack */
+        u32 init_nr = sysctl_perf_event_max_stack - max_depth;
         u32 skip = flags & BPF_F_SKIP_FIELD_MASK;
         u32 hash, id, trace_nr, trace_len;
         bool user = flags & BPF_F_USER_STACK;
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static u64 bpf_get_stackid(u64 r1, u64 r2, u64 flags, u64 r4, u64 r5)
                 return -EFAULT;
 
         /* get_perf_callchain() guarantees that trace->nr >= init_nr
-         * and trace-nr <= PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH, so trace_nr <= max_depth
+         * and trace-nr <= sysctl_perf_event_max_stack, so trace_nr <= max_depth
          */
         trace_nr = trace->nr - init_nr;