perf core: Per event callchain limit

Additionally to being able to control the system wide maximum depth via
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack, now we are able to ask for
different depths per event, using perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack for
that.

This uses an u16 hole at the end of perf_event_attr, that, when
perf_event_attr.sample_type has the PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN, if
sample_max_stack is zero, means use perf_event_max_stack, otherwise
it'll be bounds checked under callchain_mutex.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

Author: acmel

include/linux/perf_event.h

@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ extern void perf_callchain_kernel(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry, struct
 extern struct perf_callchain_entry *
 get_perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 init_nr, bool kernel, bool user,
 		   u32 max_stack, bool crosstask, bool add_mark);
-extern int get_callchain_buffers(void);
+extern int get_callchain_buffers(int max_stack);
 extern void put_callchain_buffers(void);
 
 extern int sysctl_perf_event_max_stack;

include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h

@@ -276,6 +276,9 @@ enum perf_event_read_format {
 
 /*
  * Hardware event_id to monitor via a performance monitoring event:
+ *
+ * @sample_max_stack: Max number of frame pointers in a callchain,
+ *		      should be < /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  */
 struct perf_event_attr {
 
@@ -385,7 +388,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
 	 * Wakeup watermark for AUX area
 	 */
 	__u32	aux_watermark;
-	__u32	__reserved_2;	/* align to __u64 */
+	__u16	sample_max_stack;
+	__u16	__reserved_2;	/* align to __u64 */
 };
 
 #define perf_flags(attr)	(*(&(attr)->read_format + 1))

kernel/bpf/stackmap.c

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static struct bpf_map *stack_map_alloc(union bpf_attr *attr)
 	if (err)
 		goto free_smap;
 
-	err = get_callchain_buffers();
+	err = get_callchain_buffers(sysctl_perf_event_max_stack);
 	if (err)
 		goto free_smap;
 

kernel/events/callchain.c

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static int alloc_callchain_buffers(void)
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
-int get_callchain_buffers(void)
+int get_callchain_buffers(int event_max_stack)
 {
 	int err = 0;
 	int count;
@@ -121,6 +121,15 @@ int get_callchain_buffers(void)
 		/* If the allocation failed, give up */
 		if (!callchain_cpus_entries)
 			err = -ENOMEM;
+		/*
+		 * If requesting per event more than the global cap,
+		 * return a different error to help userspace figure
+		 * this out.
+		 *
+		 * And also do it here so that we have &callchain_mutex held.
+		 */
+		if (event_max_stack > sysctl_perf_event_max_stack)
+			err = -EOVERFLOW;
 		goto exit;
 	}
 
@@ -174,11 +183,12 @@ perf_callchain(struct perf_event *event, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	bool user   = !event->attr.exclude_callchain_user;
 	/* Disallow cross-task user callchains. */
 	bool crosstask = event->ctx->task && event->ctx->task != current;
+	const u32 max_stack = event->attr.sample_max_stack;
 
 	if (!kernel && !user)
 		return NULL;
 
-	return get_perf_callchain(regs, 0, kernel, user, sysctl_perf_event_max_stack, crosstask, true);
+	return get_perf_callchain(regs, 0, kernel, user, max_stack, crosstask, true);
 }
 
 struct perf_callchain_entry *

kernel/events/core.c

@@ -8843,7 +8843,7 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
 
 	if (!event->parent) {
 		if (event->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN) {
-			err = get_callchain_buffers();
+			err = get_callchain_buffers(attr->sample_max_stack);
 			if (err)
 				goto err_addr_filters;
 		}
@@ -9165,6 +9165,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	if (!attr.sample_max_stack)
+		attr.sample_max_stack = sysctl_perf_event_max_stack;
+
 	/*
 	 * In cgroup mode, the pid argument is used to pass the fd
 	 * opened to the cgroup directory in cgroupfs. The cpu argument