Re: Fwd: perf: callchain feature on ARM - question about libunwindAPI

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Fri Aug 30 2013 - 07:56:40 EST


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:49:03PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 07:15:00PM +0200, Jean Pihet wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
> >
> > The problem is that it is slow as hell (couple of minutes to report
> > the callchain from a simple test app ;-|). I will look at the sampling
> > rate and the caching next.
>
> FYI there's elfutils alternative grewing now via libdw providing
> API to do the 'remote unwind' as in libunwind. I'm not completely
> sure, but I think it should support both .eh_frames and .debug_frames.

ok, I checked and it does ;)
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