perf tools: Set the maximum allowed stack from /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stackperf-core-for-mingo-20160427

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 <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yjqsd30nnkogvj5oyx9ghir9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c
index ae1cebc307c5..62c7f6988e0e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ static SV *perl_process_callchain(struct perf_sample *sample,
 
 	if (thread__resolve_callchain(al->thread, &callchain_cursor, evsel,
 				      sample, NULL, NULL,
-				      PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH) != 0) {
+				      sysctl_perf_event_max_stack) != 0) {
 		pr_err("Failed to resolve callchain. Skipping\n");
 		goto exit;
 	}