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Message-ID: <1301418404.2250.417.camel@laptop>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:06:44 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] perf report: add sort by file lines
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 19:03 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Is it an unwind of the call frame stack to find out what data member was
> > accessed?
>
> No need to unwind stacks, DWARF should have information on function
> local stack. It should be able to tell you the type of things like -8(%
> rbp).
That is, we don't even have a life stack to unwind, so we simply cannot
unwind at all, but the debug information should be able to tell you the
type of whatever would live at a certain stack position if we were to
have a stack.
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