perf tools: Set the maximum allowed stack from /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack

There is an upper limit to what tooling considers a valid callchain,
and it was tied to the hardcoded value in the kernel,
PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH (127), now that this can be tuned via a sysctl,
make it read it and use that as the upper limit, falling back to
PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH for kernels where this sysctl isn't present.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
index f43b0c6f88f4..efca81679bb3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
@@ -2031,7 +2031,7 @@ int cmd_script(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 	OPT_UINTEGER(0, "max-stack", &scripting_max_stack,
 		     "Set the maximum stack depth when parsing the callchain, "
 		     "anything beyond the specified depth will be ignored. "
-		     "Default: " __stringify(PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH)),
+		     "Default: kernel.perf_event_max_stack or " __stringify(PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH)),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('I', "show-info", &show_full_info,
 		    "display extended information from perf.data file"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('\0', "show-kernel-path", &symbol_conf.show_kernel_path,
@@ -2067,6 +2067,8 @@ int cmd_script(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 		NULL
 	};
 
+	scripting_max_stack = sysctl_perf_event_max_stack;
+
 	setup_scripting();
 
 	argc = parse_options_subcommand(argc, argv, options, script_subcommands, script_usage,