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From: Christian Convey <christian.convey@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: newbie question: tracing userspace call/return sequences
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 13:26:47 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> wrote:
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> You can use uftrace for function tracing.  It doesn't have a hardware dependency
> but you need to rebuild your program with instrumentation enabled (like -pg
> or -finstrument-functions in gcc).
>
> https://github.com/namhyung/uftrace

Thanks Namhyung.

For one of my current projects, I'm limited to tools which don't
require me to recompile / relink the target program.  So I'm limited
to options such as Perf, Systemtap, Gdb, or Intel Pin.

- Christian