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Message-ID: <20151119112850.GM3816@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:28:50 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@...b.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pi3orama <pi3orama@....com>,
lizefan 00213767 <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT] perf tools: x86_64: Broken calllchain when sampling
taken at 'callq' instruction
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 06:43:14PM +0800, Wangnan (F) wrote:
> Also, why not fixing rsp in kernel if that instruction is a 'callq'?
> For avoiding instruction decoding?
Why would the kernel do that? It doesn't need this.
Have userspace do it when trying to interpret the data.
If PERF_EFLAGS_EXACT is set, you know the IP points to the actual
instruction and you can attempt to undo whatever parts of it you need at
post processing time.
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