Re: perf backtraces off-by-1

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 10:52 -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On 8/26/12 9:10 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 15:13 -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> >
> >>   One option is to support
> >> this for user mode only, with code to detect signal frames. Any other
> >> ideas?
> >>
> > I guess we'd need to see what that patch would look like... :-)
> >
> 
> It used to look like this:
> 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libunwind.git;a=commitdiff;h=92cc7fd78a5a79c4bb5f85bfb7d7fb025df9cd5a

Hmm, that's not too bad, but a long stretch from pretty ;-)

How would you 'encode' this in the perf callchain data? 

> These days we just look at dwarf augmentation string:
> 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libunwind.git;a=blob;f=src/dwarf/Gfde.c;h=8659624b0320c514057861a259b6efe1b605bbf3;hb=HEAD#l189

Right, except of course we don't have that in kernel..

BTW, are you in San Diego for LinuxCon/LPC etc?

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