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Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c index 7847f3885081..ac808680e61c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c @@ -893,10 +893,22 @@ out_unmap: static size_t perf_evlist__mmap_size(unsigned long pages) { - /* 512 kiB: default amount of unprivileged mlocked memory */ - if (pages == UINT_MAX) - pages = (512 * 1024) / page_size; - else if (!is_power_of_2(pages)) + if (pages == UINT_MAX) { + int max; + + if (sysctl__read_int("kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb", &max) < 0) { + /* + * Pick a once upon a time good value, i.e. things look + * strange since we can't read a sysctl value, but lets not + * die yet... + */ + max = 512; + } else { + max -= (page_size / 1024); + } + + pages = (max * 1024) / page_size; + } else if (!is_power_of_2(pages)) return 0; return (pages + 1) * page_size; |