Recently, Arnaldo fixed global vs event specific --max-stack usage with commit bd3dda9ab0fb ("perf trace: Allow overriding global --max-stack per event"). This commit is having a regression when we don't use --max-stack at all with perf trace. Ex,
$ ./perf trace record -g ls $ ./perf trace -i perf.data 0.076 ( 0.002 ms): ls/9109 brk( 0.196 ( 0.008 ms): ls/9109 access(filename: 0x9f998b70, mode: R 0.209 ( 0.031 ms): ls/9109 open(filename: 0x9f998978, flags: CLOEXEC This is missing call-traces. After patch: $ ./perf trace -i perf.data 0.076 ( 0.002 ms): ls/9109 brk( do_syscall_trace_leave ([kernel.kallsyms]) [0] ([unknown]) syscall_exit_work ([kernel.kallsyms]) brk (/usr/lib64/ld-2.17.so) _dl_sysdep_start (/usr/lib64/ld-2.17.so) _dl_start_final (/usr/lib64/ld-2.17.so) _dl_start (/usr/lib64/ld-2.17.so) _start (/usr/lib64/ld-2.17.so) 0.196 ( 0.008 ms): ls/9109 access(filename: 0x9f998b70, mode: R do_syscall_trace_leave ([kernel.kallsyms]) [0] ([unknown]) Fixes: bd3dda9ab0fb ("perf trace: Allow overriding global --max-stack per event") Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bango...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c index 17d11de..e90f5c3 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c @@ -1661,9 +1661,12 @@ static int trace__resolve_callchain(struct trace *trace, struct perf_evsel *evse struct callchain_cursor *cursor) { struct addr_location al; + int max_stack = evsel->attr.sample_max_stack ? + evsel->attr.sample_max_stack : + trace->max_stack; if (machine__resolve(trace->host, &al, sample) < 0 || - thread__resolve_callchain(al.thread, cursor, evsel, sample, NULL, NULL, evsel->attr.sample_max_stack)) + thread__resolve_callchain(al.thread, cursor, evsel, sample, NULL, NULL, max_stack)) return -1; return 0; -- 1.8.3.1