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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de>,
	linux-perf-users <linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Joseph Schuchart <joseph.schuchart@tu-dresden.de>
Subject: Re: Perf event for Wall-time based sampling?
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:39:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <541B42FC.5000105@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140918203625.GM2770@kernel.org>

On 9/18/14, 2:36 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> I'm just trying to figure out if what people want is a complete
> backtrace of all threads in a process, no matter what they are doing, at
> some given time, i.e. at "sysrq-t" time, is that the case?

I think so. That's what poor-man's profiler is doing -- attach gdb every 
N seconds, dump stack. In perf terminology generate a sample and include 
the callchain.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-18 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18 12:32 Perf event for Wall-time based sampling? Milian Wolff
2014-09-18 13:23 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-18 13:41   ` Milian Wolff
2014-09-18 14:51     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-18 15:26       ` Milian Wolff
2014-09-18 15:57         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-18 16:37           ` Milian Wolff
2014-09-18 19:17             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-18 19:31               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-18 20:17               ` David Ahern
2014-09-18 20:36                 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-18 20:39                   ` David Ahern [this message]
2014-09-19  8:11                   ` Milian Wolff
2014-09-19  9:08                     ` Milian Wolff
2014-09-19 14:47                     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-19 15:04                       ` David Ahern
2014-09-19 15:05                       ` Milian Wolff
2014-09-19 14:17                   ` David Ahern
2014-09-19 14:39                     ` Milian Wolff
2014-09-19 14:55                       ` David Ahern
2014-09-19  5:59               ` Namhyung Kim
2014-09-19 14:33                 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-19 14:53                   ` Milian Wolff
2014-09-19 15:50                     ` Namhyung Kim
2014-09-22  7:56                 ` Namhyung Kim

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