Re: [PATCH 5/6] perf_counter: add more context information

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 20:18 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:36 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > > > -#define MAX_STACK_DEPTH		255
> > > > +#define MAX_STACK_DEPTH		254
> > > >  
> > > >  struct perf_callchain_entry {
> > > > -	u64	nr;
> > > > +	u32	nr, hv, kernel, user;
> > > >  	u64	ip[MAX_STACK_DEPTH];
> > > >  };
> > 
> > Oh, and Paul suggested using u16s right after I send it out. So 
> > I'll either send an update or send a incremental in case you 
> > already applied it.
> 
> yes, that's probably a good idea. Although u8 might be even better - 
> do we ever want to do more than 256 deep stack vectors? Even those 
> would take quite some time to construct and pass down.

We'd have to pad it with 4 more bytes to remain u64 aligned, also, why
restrict ourselves. That MAX_STACK_DEPTH limit is trivially fixable if
indeed someone finds its insufficient.