perf/core: Move perf_event sysctls into kernel/events

Move ctl tables to two files:

- perf_event_{paranoid,mlock_kb,max_sample_rate} and
perf_cpu_time_max_percent into kernel/events/core.c

-

perf/core: Move perf_event sysctls into kernel/events

Move ctl tables to two files:

- perf_event_{paranoid,mlock_kb,max_sample_rate} and
perf_cpu_time_max_percent into kernel/events/core.c

- perf_event_max_{stack,context_per_stack} into
kernel/events/callchain.c

Make static variables and functions that are fully contained in core.c
and callchain.cand remove them from include/linux/perf_event.h.
Additionally six_hundred_forty_kb is moved to callchain.c.

Two new sysctl tables are added ({callchain,events_core}_sysctl_table)
with their respective sysctl registration functions.

This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kerenel/sysctl.c.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers

const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ct

sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers

const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
virtual patch

@r1@
identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
@@

int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

@r2@
identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@

int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{ ... }

@r3@
identifier func;
@@

int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

@r4@
identifier func, ctl;
@@

int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

@r5@
identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@

int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>

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perf: Shrink the size of the recursion counter.

There are four recursion counter, one for each context. The type of the
counter is `int' but the counter is used as `bool' since it is only
incremente

perf: Shrink the size of the recursion counter.

There are four recursion counter, one for each context. The type of the
counter is `int' but the counter is used as `bool' since it is only
incremented if zero.
The main goal here is to shrink the whole struct into 32bit int which
can later be added task_struct into an existing hole.

Reduce the type of the recursion counter to an unsigned char, keep the
increment/ decrement operation.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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perf,uprobes: fix user stack traces in the presence of pending uretprobes

When kernel has pending uretprobes installed, it hijacks original user
function return address on the stack with a uretprobe

perf,uprobes: fix user stack traces in the presence of pending uretprobes

When kernel has pending uretprobes installed, it hijacks original user
function return address on the stack with a uretprobe trampoline
address. There could be multiple such pending uretprobes (either on
different user functions or on the same recursive one) at any given
time within the same task.

This approach interferes with the user stack trace capture logic, which
would report suprising addresses (like 0x7fffffffe000) that correspond
to a special "[uprobes]" section that kernel installs in the target
process address space for uretprobe trampoline code, while logically it
should be an address somewhere within the calling function of another
traced user function.

This is easy to correct for, though. Uprobes subsystem keeps track of
pending uretprobes and records original return addresses. This patch is
using this to do a post-processing step and restore each trampoline
address entries with correct original return address. This is done only
if there are pending uretprobes for current task.

This is a similar approach to what fprobe/kretprobe infrastructure is
doing when capturing kernel stack traces in the presence of pending
return probes.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Reported-by: Riham Selim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>

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uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS

There are no remaining callers of set_fs(), so CONFIG_SET_FS
can be removed globally, along with the thread_info field and
any references to it.

This turns access_ok()

uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS

There are no remaining callers of set_fs(), so CONFIG_SET_FS
can be removed globally, along with the thread_info field and
any references to it.

This turns access_ok() into a cheaper check against TASK_SIZE_MAX.

As CONFIG_SET_FS is now gone, drop all remaining references to
set_fs()/get_fs(), mm_segment_t, user_addr_max() and uaccess_kernel().

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]> # for sparc32 changes
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sergey Matyukevich <[email protected]> # for arc changes
Acked-by: Stafford Horne <[email protected]> # [openrisc, asm-generic]
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

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uaccess: add force_uaccess_{begin,end} helpers

Add helpers to wrap the get_fs/set_fs magic for undoing any damange done
by set_fs(KERNEL_DS). There is no real functional benefit, but this
documents

uaccess: add force_uaccess_{begin,end} helpers

Add helpers to wrap the get_fs/set_fs magic for undoing any damange done
by set_fs(KERNEL_DS). There is no real functional benefit, but this
documents the intent of these calls better, and will allow stubbing the
functions out easily for kernels builds that do not allow address space
overrides in the future.

[[email protected]: drop two incorrect hunks, fix a commit log typo]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Hu <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincent Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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perf: Expose get/put_callchain_entry()

Sanitize and expose get/put_callchain_entry(). This would be used by bpf
stack map.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Song Li

perf: Expose get/put_callchain_entry()

Sanitize and expose get/put_callchain_entry(). This would be used by bpf
stack map.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]

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perf/core: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variab

perf/core: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
int stuff;
struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200511201227.GA14041@embeddedor

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sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from u

sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from userspace in common code. This also means that the strings are
always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
safer.

As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
a lot of the changes are mechnical.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

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perf/core: Convert to SPDX license identifiers

Use proper SPDX license identifiers instead of the bogus reference to
kernel-base/COPYING.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-

perf/core: Convert to SPDX license identifiers

Use proper SPDX license identifiers instead of the bogus reference to
kernel-base/COPYING.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8

Almost all files in the kernel are either plain text or UTF-8 encoded. A
couple however are ISO_8859-1, usually just a few characters in a C
comm

treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8

Almost all files in the kernel are either plain text or UTF-8 encoded. A
couple however are ISO_8859-1, usually just a few characters in a C
comments, for historic reasons.

This converts them all to UTF-8 for consistency.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]> [IPVS portion]
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]> [IIO]
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> [powerpc]
Acked-by: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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perf: Remove superfluous allocation error check

If the get_callchain_buffers fails to allocate the buffer it will
decrease the nr_callchain_events right away.

There's no point of checking the alloc

perf: Remove superfluous allocation error check

If the get_callchain_buffers fails to allocate the buffer it will
decrease the nr_callchain_events right away.

There's no point of checking the allocation error for
nr_callchain_events > 1. Removing that check.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf: Fix sample_max_stack maximum check

The syzbot hit KASAN bug in perf_callchain_store having the entry stored
behind the allocated bounds [1].

We miss the sample_max_stack check for the initial

perf: Fix sample_max_stack maximum check

The syzbot hit KASAN bug in perf_callchain_store having the entry stored
behind the allocated bounds [1].

We miss the sample_max_stack check for the initial event that allocates
callchain buffers. This missing check allows to create an event with
sample_max_stack value bigger than the global sysctl maximum:

# sysctl -a | grep perf_event_max_stack
kernel.perf_event_max_stack = 127

# perf record -vv -C 1 -e cycles/max-stack=256/ kill
...
perf_event_attr:
size 112
...
sample_max_stack 256
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 4

Note the '-C 1', which forces perf record to create just single event.
Otherwise it opens event for every cpu, then the sample_max_stack check
fails on the second event and all's fine.

The fix is to run the sample_max_stack check also for the first event
with callchains.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152352732920874&w=2

Reported-by: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 97c79a38cd45 ("perf core: Per event callchain limit")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf: Make perf_callchain function static

And move it to core.c, because there's no caller of this function other
than the one in core.c

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Sh

perf: Make perf_callchain function static

And move it to core.c, because there's no caller of this function other
than the one in core.c

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf/callchain: Force USER_DS when invoking perf_callchain_user()

Perf can generate and record a user callchain in response to a synchronous
request, such as a tracepoint firing. If this happens und

perf/callchain: Force USER_DS when invoking perf_callchain_user()

Perf can generate and record a user callchain in response to a synchronous
request, such as a tracepoint firing. If this happens under set_fs(KERNEL_DS),
then we can end up walking the user stack (and dereferencing/saving whatever we
find there) without the protections usually afforded by checks such as
access_ok.

Rather than play whack-a-mole with each architecture's stack unwinding
implementation, fix the root of the problem by ensuring that we force USER_DS
when invoking perf_callchain_user from the perf core.

Reported-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/task_stack.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be pic

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/task_stack.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/task_stack.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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perf core: Per event callchain limit

Additionally to being able to control the system wide maximum depth via
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack, now we are able to ask for
different depths per ev

perf core: Per event callchain limit

Additionally to being able to control the system wide maximum depth via
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack, now we are able to ask for
different depths per event, using perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack for
that.

This uses an u16 hole at the end of perf_event_attr, that, when
perf_event_attr.sample_type has the PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN, if
sample_max_stack is zero, means use perf_event_max_stack, otherwise
it'll be bounds checked under callchain_mutex.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf core: Separate accounting of contexts and real addresses in a stack trace

The perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr value includes all the entries in the
ip_callchain->ip[] array, real addresses and PE

perf core: Separate accounting of contexts and real addresses in a stack trace

The perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr value includes all the entries in the
ip_callchain->ip[] array, real addresses and PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc},
while what the user expects is that what is in the kernel.perf_event_max_stack
sysctl or in the upcoming per event perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob be
honoured in terms of IP addresses in the stack trace.

So allocate a bunch of extra entries for contexts, and do the accounting
via perf_callchain_entry_ctx struct members.

A new sysctl, kernel.perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack is also
introduced for investigating possible bugs in the callchain
implementation by some arch.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf core: Add perf_callchain_store_context() helper

We need have different helpers to account how many contexts we have in
the sample and for real addresses, so do it now as a prep patch, to
ease r

perf core: Add perf_callchain_store_context() helper

We need have different helpers to account how many contexts we have in
the sample and for real addresses, so do it now as a prep patch, to
ease review.

Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf core: Add a 'nr' field to perf_event_callchain_context

We will use it to count how many addresses are in the entry->ip[] array,
excluding PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc} entries, so that we can

perf core: Add a 'nr' field to perf_event_callchain_context

We will use it to count how many addresses are in the entry->ip[] array,
excluding PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc} entries, so that we can really
return the number of entries specified by the user via the relevant
sysctl, kernel.perf_event_max_contexts, or via the per event
perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob.

This way we keep the perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr meaning, that is the
number of entries, be it real addresses or PERF_CONTEXT_ entries, while
honouring the max_stack knobs, i.e. the end result will be max_stack
entries if we have at least that many entries in a given stack trace.

Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf core: Pass max stack as a perf_callchain_entry context

This makes perf_callchain_{user,kernel}() receive the max stack
as context for the perf_callchain_entry, instead of accessing
the global s

perf core: Pass max stack as a perf_callchain_entry context

This makes perf_callchain_{user,kernel}() receive the max stack
as context for the perf_callchain_entry, instead of accessing
the global sysctl_perf_event_max_stack.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf core: Generalize max_stack sysctl handler

So that it can be used for other stack related knobs, such as the
upcoming one to tweak the max number of of contexts per stack sample.

In all those c

perf core: Generalize max_stack sysctl handler

So that it can be used for other stack related knobs, such as the
upcoming one to tweak the max number of of contexts per stack sample.

In all those cases we can only change the value if there are no perf
sessions collecting stacks, so they need to grab that mutex, etc.

Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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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

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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf: generalize perf_callchain

. avoid walking the stack when there is no room left in the buffer
. generalize get_perf_callchain() to be called from bpf helper

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <

perf: generalize perf_callchain

. avoid walking the stack when there is no room left in the buffer
. generalize get_perf_callchain() to be called from bpf helper

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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treewide: Remove old email address

There were still a number of references to my old Red Hat email
address in the kernel source. Remove these while keeping the
Red Hat copyright notices intact.

Sig

treewide: Remove old email address

There were still a number of references to my old Red Hat email
address in the kernel source. Remove these while keeping the
Red Hat copyright notices intact.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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