[PATCH v7 17/17] perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread.

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

If the task is not a user thread, there's no user stack to unwind.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 7c7d5a27c568..02e52df7a02e 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8101,7 +8101,8 @@ struct perf_callchain_entry *
 perf_callchain(struct perf_event *event, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	bool kernel = !event->attr.exclude_callchain_kernel;
-	bool user   = !event->attr.exclude_callchain_user;
+	bool user   = !event->attr.exclude_callchain_user &&
+		!(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD);
 	/* Disallow cross-task user callchains. */
 	bool crosstask = event->ctx->task && event->ctx->task != current;
 	const u32 max_stack = event->attr.sample_max_stack;
-- 
2.47.2