perf_counter: add more context information

Change the callchain context entries to u16, so as to gain some space.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.457320003@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index e22ab47a2f41741bcdca3e4c9bfc0346ee1dd312..f9d5cf0bfbdd007529e07125b95ee8fd9ea65b8b 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -507,10 +507,10 @@ extern void perf_counter_mmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
 extern void perf_counter_munmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
                                unsigned long pgoff, struct file *file);
 
-#define MAX_STACK_DEPTH                254
+#define MAX_STACK_DEPTH                255
 
 struct perf_callchain_entry {
-       u32     nr, hv, kernel, user;
+       u16     nr, hv, kernel, user;
        u64     ip[MAX_STACK_DEPTH];
 };
 

diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 2a5d4f525567800eb52a8d280e02fe504e7b970d..727624db5078bef5fcdcaa3c97e63768f8e29c86 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1657,9 +1657,7 @@ void perf_counter_do_pending(void)
  * Callchain support -- arch specific
  */
 
-struct perf_callchain_entry *
-__attribute__((weak))
-perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs)
+__weak struct perf_callchain_entry *perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
        return NULL;
 }
@@ -1819,7 +1817,7 @@ void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter,
                callchain = perf_callchain(regs);
 
                if (callchain) {
-                       callchain_size = (2 + callchain->nr) * sizeof(u64);
+                       callchain_size = (1 + callchain->nr) * sizeof(u64);
 
                        header.type |= __PERF_EVENT_CALLCHAIN;
                        header.size += callchain_size;