Re: BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low! (2)

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jul 12 2019 - 04:55:55 EST


On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:53:12AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 7/10/19 3:09 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > One thing I mentioned when Thomas did the unwinder API changes was
> > trying to move lockdep over to something like stackdepot.
> >
> > We can't directly use stackdepot as is, because it uses locks and memory
> > allocation, but we could maybe add a lower level API to it and use that
> > under the graph_lock() on static storage or something.
> >
> > Otherwise we'll have to (re)implement something like it.
> >
> > I've not looked at it in detail.
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Is something like the untested patch below perhaps what you had in mind?

Most excellent, yes! Now I suppose the $64000 question is if it actually
reduces the amount of storage we use for stack traces..

Seems to boot just fine.. :-)