From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
"Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] perf, x86: Haswell LBR call stack support
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:25:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrUHiDqT+VRbdEnGsEkMFqQt+ZqX+RTenp1ets8XMhrQ2Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530E3E47.8010205@gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/14, 11:59 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
>> I wonder if anyone who uses perf for userspace profiling *ever* uses
>> FP and gets away with it. There's precious little userspace software
>> compiled with frame pointers these days on most architectures.
>
>
> yes and yes. With control over the entire stack we are making sure
> frame-pointers are enabled as much as possible.
>
I'm curious why.
Maybe this should be a config option. Anyone using a standard distro
is running a nearly completely frame-pointer-omitted userspace these
days.
--Andy
>
--
Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-26 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-18 6:07 [PATCH v3 00/14] perf, x86: Haswell LBR call stack support Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] perf, x86: Reduce lbr_sel_map size Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] perf, core: introduce pmu context switch callback Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 03/14] perf, x86: use context switch callback to flush LBR stack Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] perf, x86: Basic Haswell LBR call stack support Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] perf, core: pmu specific data for perf task context Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] perf, core: always switch pmu specific data during context switch Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] perf, x86: track number of events that use LBR callstack Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] perf, x86: allocate space for storing LBR stack Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] perf, x86: Save/resotre LBR stack during context switch Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] perf, core: simplify need branch stack check Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] perf, core: Pass perf_sample_data to perf_callchain() Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] perf, x86: use LBR call stack to get user callchain Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] perf, x86: enable LBR callstack when recording callchain Yan, Zheng
2014-02-18 6:07 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] perf, x86: Discard zero length call entries in LBR call stack Yan, Zheng
2014-02-23 19:47 ` [PATCH v3 00/14] perf, x86: Haswell LBR call stack support Stephane Eranian
2014-02-24 1:07 ` Yan, Zheng
2014-02-24 7:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-26 2:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-26 7:04 ` Stephane Eranian
2014-02-26 8:57 ` Yan, Zheng
2014-02-26 16:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-26 18:55 ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-26 18:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-26 19:19 ` David Ahern
2014-02-26 19:25 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2014-02-26 20:14 ` David Ahern
2014-02-26 20:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-09 11:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-09 16:48 ` Andi Kleen
2014-04-09 17:40 ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-26 20:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-26 20:53 ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-26 21:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-26 21:33 ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-26 21:34 ` David Ahern
2014-02-26 21:42 ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-27 9:09 ` Stephane Eranian
2014-02-27 12:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-02-27 16:08 ` Andi Kleen
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