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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: perf cannot see call graph, visible in gdb
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:35:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130909143537.GA28036@krava.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522DD5A5.70500@gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 07:05:25AM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> Adding Jiri.
> 
> On 9/9/13 5:59 AM, Mark Hills wrote:
> >On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >Thank you, much appreciated.
> >
> >A newer perf appears to need a newer kernel too, and it's not practical
> >for me to break away from the RedHat kernel at the moment (currently on
> >2.6.32-358.14.1.el6)
> 
> Any updates to RHEL6 for dwarf callchains?
> 

unfortunately no news in RHEL6 for this one

jirka

      reply	other threads:[~2013-09-09 14:36 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
2013-09-09 12:59   ` Mark Hills
2013-09-09 14:05     ` David Ahern
2013-09-09 14:35       ` Jiri Olsa [this message]

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