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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Access to backtraces from user-space tracepoint callback in perf-script?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:57:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mlhu14sz5.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1944165.rOQGbuz1ZM@milian-kdab2> (Milian Wolff's message of "Wed, 14 May 2014 10:47:43 +0200")


Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de> writes:

> [...]
>> >> today I played around with perf-script(-python) and custom tracepoints.
>> >> What I could not figure out so far is how to print a backtrace from the
>> >> python callback. [...]

While you wait, you might try systemtap, wherein there exists support
not just for plain C-level backtracing (print_ubacktrace() as for any
other program), but also python source-level backtracing (via a tapset
function).

https://sourceware.org/systemtap/examples/#general/py2example.stp

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-16 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-29 15:44 Access to backtraces from user-space tracepoint callback in perf-script? Milian Wolff
2014-05-07 12:46 ` Milian Wolff
2014-05-14  0:33   ` Namhyung Kim
2014-05-14  8:47     ` Milian Wolff
2014-05-16 15:57       ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2014-05-17 11:24         ` Milian Wolff
2014-05-17 14:31           ` David Ahern

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