From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98232ECE563 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B462146D for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:48:00 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 59B462146D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728490AbeIRERW (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:17:22 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43234 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726037AbeIRERV (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:17:21 -0400 Received: from localhost (li1825-44.members.linode.com [172.104.248.44]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C3D99CA0; Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:47:56 +0000 (UTC) From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Christophe Leroy , Alexander Shishkin , Peter Zijlstra , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.4 24/56] perf tools: Allow overriding MAX_NR_CPUS at compile time Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:41:57 +0200 Message-Id: <20180917213828.944657368@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.19.0 In-Reply-To: <20180917213827.913122591@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180917213827.913122591@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 X-stable: review MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Christophe Leroy [ Upstream commit 21b8732eb4479b579bda9ee38e62b2c312c2a0e5 ] After update of kernel, the perf tool doesn't run anymore on my 32MB RAM powerpc board, but still runs on a 128MB RAM board: ~# strace perf execve("/usr/sbin/perf", ["perf"], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SI_KERNEL, si_addr=0} --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Segmentation fault objdump -x shows that .bss section has a huge size of 24Mbytes: 27 .bss 016baca8 101cebb8 101cebb8 001cd988 2**3 With especially the following objects having quite big size: 10205f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_cycles_stats 10345f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_stalled_cycles_front_stats 10485f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_stalled_cycles_back_stats 105c5f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_branches_stats 10705f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_cacherefs_stats 10845f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_l1_dcache_stats 10985f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_l1_icache_stats 10ac5f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_ll_cache_stats 10c05f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_itlb_cache_stats 10d45f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_dtlb_cache_stats 10e85f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_cycles_in_tx_stats 10fc5f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_transaction_stats 11105f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_elision_stats 11245f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_topdown_total_slots 11385f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_topdown_slots_retired 114c5f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_topdown_slots_issued 11605f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_topdown_fetch_bubbles 11745f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_topdown_recovery_bubbles This is due to commit 4d255766d28b1 ("perf: Bump max number of cpus to 1024"), because many tables are sized with MAX_NR_CPUS This patch gives the opportunity to redefine MAX_NR_CPUS via $ make EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DMAX_NR_CPUS=1 Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170922112043.8349468C57@po15668-vm-win7.idsi0.si.c-s.fr Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/perf/perf.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/tools/perf/perf.h +++ b/tools/perf/perf.h @@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ static inline unsigned long long rdclock return ts.tv_sec * 1000000000ULL + ts.tv_nsec; } +#ifndef MAX_NR_CPUS #define MAX_NR_CPUS 1024 +#endif extern const char *input_name; extern bool perf_host, perf_guest;