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    tracing: Remove most or all of stack tracer stack size from stack_max_size · 4df29712
    Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
    
    
    Currently, the depth reported in the stack tracer stack_trace file
    does not match the stack_max_size file. This is because the stack_max_size
    includes the overhead of stack tracer itself while the depth does not.
    
    The first time a max is triggered, a calculation is not performed that
    figures out the overhead of the stack tracer and subtracts it from
    the stack_max_size variable. The overhead is stored and is subtracted
    from the reported stack size for comparing for a new max.
    
    Now the stack_max_size corresponds to the reported depth:
    
     # cat stack_max_size
    4640
    
     # cat stack_trace
            Depth    Size   Location    (48 entries)
            -----    ----   --------
      0)     4640      32   _raw_spin_lock+0x18/0x24
      1)     4608     112   ____cache_alloc+0xb7/0x22d
      2)     4496      80   kmem_cache_alloc+0x63/0x12f
      3)     4416      16   mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x17
    [...]
    
    While testing against and older gcc on x86 that uses mcount instead
    of fentry, I found that pasing in ip + MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE let the
    stack trace show one more function deep which was missing before.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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