linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf/arch: Remove perf_sample_data::regs_user

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Date:   Fri, 30 Oct 2020 08:33:58 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, kan.liang@...ux.intel.com,
        like.xu@...ux.intel.com, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/arch: Remove perf_sample_data::regs_user_copy

On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:59:17 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:26:01AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > What's worse is perf_sample_data which is 384 bytes and is 64 bytes aligned.  
> 
> Here; this shrinks it to 192 bytes. Combined with the static dummy this
> should reduce stack usage by 360 bytes.
> 
> ---
> Subject: perf/arch: Remove perf_sample_data::regs_user_copy
> 
> struct perf_sample_data lives on-stack, we should be careful about it's
> size. Furthermore, the pt_regs copy in there is only because x86_64 is a
> trainwreck, solve it differently.
> 
> Halves sizeof(perf_sample_data).
> 
> 


I tested with just this patch and it doesn't crash when running
function tracing and perf simultaneously.

-- Steve