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 <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kolmn1yo40p7jhswxwrc7rrd@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c
index 179ef46..e9fdb52 100644
--- a/kernel/events/callchain.c
+++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ fail:
 	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 *
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 050a290..79363f2 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/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