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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] perf: Delayed userspace unwind (Was: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86:
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 01:55:12PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

SNIP

>  
> diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c
> index 1b2be63c8528..c98a12f3592c 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/callchain.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>  #include <linux/perf_event.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/sched/task_stack.h>
> +#include <linux/task_work.h>
>  
>  #include "internal.h"
>  
> @@ -178,19 +179,94 @@ put_callchain_entry(int rctx)
>  	put_recursion_context(this_cpu_ptr(callchain_recursion), rctx);
>  }
>  
> +static struct perf_callchain_entry __empty = { .nr = 0, };
> +
> +static void perf_callchain_work(struct callback_head *work)
> +{
> +	struct perf_event *event = container_of(work, struct perf_event, pending_callchain);
> +	struct perf_output_handle handle;
> +	struct perf_sample_data sample;
> +	size_t size;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	struct {
> +		struct perf_event_header	header;
> +	} callchain_event = {
> +		.header = {
> +			.type = PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN,
> +			.misc = 0,
> +			.size = sizeof(callchain_event),
> +		},
> +	};

how about we make this generic for all user space sample_type?

I think we could certainly use it for PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER,
maybe PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER would also help.. just a little ;-)

I'll check on that

jirka