linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] New utility: 'trace'

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Message-ID: <20101117150516.18136834@deb0>
Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:05:16 +0200
From:	Török Edwin <edwintorok@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New utility: 'trace'

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:51:52 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 14:47 +0200, Török Edwin wrote:
> > I see --call-graph in the trace record -h output, but it doesn't
> > seem to work on x86_64 for me.
> 
> If you want to unwind userspace you need to build everything with
> framepointers -- sadly some people have been lobbying to remove
> framepointers from all distro builds, even though on x86_64 its nearly
> free (i386 does have a significant performance benefit, sadly).
> 
> There's some work on-going to simply copy out the top of stack and let
> dwarves go wild at it in userspace, but that isn't done yet.

Even without frame-pointers I should see at least the first caller in
userspace, since that can be obtained by reading the return address of
the syscall, right?
I don't see any difference in the output of 'trace report' thats why
I'm asking it is implemented at all right now, or I need additional
flags to see it.

I do see some difference in output of 'perf record -g/perf report'
though.

Best regards,
--Edwin


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