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commitee2a098851upstream. Let's say that the caller has storage for num_elem stack frames. Then, the BPF stack helper functions walk the stack for only num_elem frames. This means that if skip > 0, one keeps only 'num_elem - skip' frames. This is because it sets init_nr in the perf_callchain_entry to the end of the buffer to save num_elem entries only. I believe it was because the perf callchain code unwound the stack frames until it reached the global max size (sysctl_perf_event_max_stack). However it now has perf_callchain_entry_ctx.max_stack to limit the iteration locally. This simplifies the code to handle init_nr in the BPF callstack entries and removes the confusion with the perf_event's __PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY which sets init_nr to 0. Also change the comment on bpf_get_stack() in the header file to be more explicit what the return value means. Fixes:c195651e56("bpf: add bpf_get_stack helper") Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/30a7b5d5-6726-1cc2-eaee-8da2828a9a9c@oracle.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220314182042.71025-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Based-on-patch-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.