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From: Christian Convey <christian.convey@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: newbie question: tracing userspace call/return sequences
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 14:07:19 -0500
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> Use the right tool for the job.
>
> On Intel, use a Broadwell or Skylake or Goldmont and use processor trace.
>
> perf record -e intel_pt//u foo
> perf script --itrace=cr

Hi Andi,

Thanks for the idea.  It sounds promising.

Unfortunately for my current situation, the CPU's on which I need to
run this are too old to have intel_pt.

- Christian