On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 09:09:14PM +0800, wardenjohn wrote: > OK, I will resubmit the patch by git-send-email(1) instead. :) > > But I want ask how can I provide the Link to discussion? > And what is v2 patch? > I am sorry that it is my first time to join the kernel discussion. > > I am looking forward to get the guidance from you. Thanks! > > The reason of reducing MAX_STACK_ENTRIES from 100 to 32 is as follows: > In my daily work, I found that all the function stack will not achieve the number of 32. > Therefore, setting the array of 100 may be a waste of kernel memory. Therefore, I suggest > to reduce the number of entries of the stack entries from 100 to 32. > > Here is an example of the call trace: > [20409.505602] [<ffffffff81168861>] group_sched_out+0x61/0xb0 > [20409.514791] [<ffffffff81168bfd>] ctx_sched_out+0xad/0xf0 > [20409.520307] [<ffffffff8116a03d>] __perf_install_in_context+0xbd/0x1b0 > [20409.526952] [<ffffffff811649b0>] remote_function+0x40/0x50 > [20409.532644] [<ffffffff810f1666>] generic_exec_single+0x156/0x1a0 > [20409.538864] [<ffffffff81164970>] ? perf_event_set_output+0x190/0x190 > [20409.545425] [<ffffffff810f170f>] smp_call_function_single+0x5f/0xa0 > [20409.551895] [<ffffffff811f5e70>] ? alloc_file+0xa0/0xf0 > [20409.557326] [<ffffffff81163523>] task_function_call+0x53/0x80 > [20409.563274] [<ffffffff81169f80>] ? perf_cpu_hrtimer_handler+0x1b0/0x1b0 > [20409.570089] [<ffffffff81166688>] perf_install_in_context+0x78/0x120 > [20409.576558] [<ffffffff8116da54>] SYSC_perf_event_open+0x794/0xa40 > [20409.582852] [<ffffffff8116e169>] SyS_perf_event_open+0x9/0x10 > [20409.588803] [<ffffffff8166bf3d>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > [20409.594926] [<ffffffff8166bddd>] ? system_call_after_swapgs+0xca/0x214 Actually, when I booted with CONFIG_PREEMPT+CONFIG_LOCKDEP, I saw the number of stack entries go higher than 60. I didn't do extensive testing, so it might go even higher than that. I'd rather leave it at 100 for now, as we currently have no way of reporting if the limit is getting hit across a variety of configs and usage scenarios. And any memory savings would be negligible anyway. -- Josh
