On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 06:21:03PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> 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.

forgot:

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

thanks,
jirka

> 
> 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
> 
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