Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 06:05:00PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > I started with max depth = 512, and even that was still truncated, and
> > had to profile again at 1024 to capture the full stacks. Seems to

                           ^^^^^^

> > generally match the flame graph I generated with V1, which made me
> > want to check that I'm running the new patch, and am:
> > 
> > # grep six_hundred_forty_kb /proc/kallsyms
> > ffffffff81c431e0 d six_hundred_forty_kb
> > 
> > I was mucking around and was able to get "corrupted callchain.
> > skipping..." errors, but these look to be expected -- that was
> 
> Yeah, thanks for testing!
> 
> And since you talked about userspace without frame pointers, have you
> played with '--call-graph lbr'?

That seems to be at odds with his requirements; he needs 1024 entries to
capture full stacks, LBR is limited to 16/32 or so entries. That's 2
orders of magnitude difference.