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 <a...@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjash...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>
---
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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