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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: perf cannot see call graph, visible in gdb
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:49:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioydhgs1.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309051629550.29229@wes.ijneb.com> (Mark Hills's message of "Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:48:07 +0100 (BST)")

Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk> writes:

> I have a pre-compiled .so library, which was given to me for profiling.
>
> gdb can see a complete call stack -- both the library and my own code, as 
> expected.
>
> But in perf the callgraph for the library is not present. I'm using "perf 
> record -g", and the callgraph for the other code is seen.
>  
> In what cases could gdb see the stack, but perf cannot?

No frame pointer. 

Recompile with -fno-omit-frame-pointer

Or if you have a new enough perf, you can use -g dwarf to enable 
dwarf backtracing, but it's very slow and also doesn't handle all 
situations gdb handles.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-06 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-05 16:48 perf cannot see call graph, visible in gdb Mark Hills
2013-09-06 19:49 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2013-09-09 12:59   ` Mark Hills
2013-09-09 14:05     ` David Ahern
2013-09-09 14:35       ` Jiri Olsa

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