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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2022-06-15 09:32:21 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2022-07-12 09:56:05 -0300
commit7cb2a53f7f413734734bac214c4855e9863b9853 (patch)
treeb7ed211604d0a98cfcfb3c24089e205024cb5694 /tools
parentperf lock: Handle lock contention tracepoints (diff)
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perf record: Allow to specify max stack depth of fp callchain
Currently it has no interface to specify the max stack depth for perf record. Extend the command line parameter to accept a number after 'fp' to specify the depth like '--call-graph fp,32'. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615163222.1275500-7-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt5
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/callchain.c18
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 6bd6d07021ba..099817ef5150 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -275,6 +275,11 @@ OPTIONS
User can change the size by passing the size after comma like
"--call-graph dwarf,4096".
+ When "fp" recording is used, perf tries to save stack enties
+ up to the number specified in sysctl.kernel.perf_event_max_stack
+ by default. User can change the number by passing it after comma
+ like "--call-graph fp,32".
+
-q::
--quiet::
Don't print any message, useful for scripting.
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/callchain.c b/tools/perf/util/callchain.c
index 5c27a4b2e7a7..7e663673f79f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/callchain.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/callchain.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include "callchain.h"
#include "branch.h"
#include "symbol.h"
+#include "util.h"
#include "../perf.h"
#define CALLCHAIN_PARAM_DEFAULT \
@@ -266,12 +267,17 @@ int parse_callchain_record(const char *arg, struct callchain_param *param)
do {
/* Framepointer style */
if (!strncmp(name, "fp", sizeof("fp"))) {
- if (!strtok_r(NULL, ",", &saveptr)) {
- param->record_mode = CALLCHAIN_FP;
- ret = 0;
- } else
- pr_err("callchain: No more arguments "
- "needed for --call-graph fp\n");
+ ret = 0;
+ param->record_mode = CALLCHAIN_FP;
+
+ tok = strtok_r(NULL, ",", &saveptr);
+ if (tok) {
+ unsigned long size;
+
+ size = strtoul(tok, &name, 0);
+ if (size < (unsigned) sysctl__max_stack())
+ param->max_stack = size;
+ }
break;
/* Dwarf style */