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From: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>,
	Brendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oprofile-list@lists.sf.net
Subject: Re: [RFC] Merging ftrace_stack, perf_callchain, oprofile->backtrace and stack_trace
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 20:41:33 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181021094133.nvqhs73khwx2xe4a@ryuk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181021093106.mhjpb2rnx6kstjki@ryuk>

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On 2018-10-21, Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> wrote:
> However, in working on this patch, I've noticed that there appear to be
> several different implementations of "get the stack trace from this
> pt_regs" which all appear quite similar. Namely:
> 
>   * struct ftrace_stack;

Sorry, I made a mistake here. ftrace_stack *does* use stack_trace under
the hood, and so it can be easily modified to use the saved kretprobe
stack. The only issue is with perf_callchain_entry (which affects
bpf_get_stack).

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-21  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-21  9:31 [RFC] Merging ftrace_stack, perf_callchain, oprofile->backtrace and stack_trace Aleksa Sarai
2018-10-21  9:41 ` Aleksa Sarai [this message]
2018-10-21 20:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-22 15:26   ` Aleksa Sarai

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