Following patch fails (-EINVAL) ftrace:function with enabled user space callchains: cfa77bc4af2c perf: Disallow user-space callchains for function trace events
We need to follow in perf tool itself and explicitly set the perf_event_attr::exclude_callchain_user flag for ftrace:function event. Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Corey Ashford <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index ec5eb8033296..a3baaa31231e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -658,6 +658,14 @@ void perf_evsel__config(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct record_opts *opts) attr->mmap_data = track; } + /* + * We don't allow user space callchains for function trace + * event, due to issues with page faults while tracing page + * fault handler and its overall trickiness nature. + */ + if (perf_evsel__is_function_event(evsel)) + evsel->attr.exclude_callchain_user = 1; + if (callchain_param.enabled && !evsel->no_aux_samples) perf_evsel__config_callgraph(evsel); -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
