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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de>, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Access to backtraces from user-space tracepoint callback in perf-script?
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 08:31:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537772DB.3060406@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2081629.cxlLP7Yh7G@minime>

On 5/17/14, 5:24 AM, Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2014 11:57:02 Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>> 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
>
> Hey,
>
> thanks for the hint. But I never got SystemTap to work on any of my machines
> :-/
>
> For now I'll stick to manual libunwind + libbacktrace + LD_PRELOAD tracing.
> But I'd love to see this available in perf eventually.
>

Did you try the patch to perf? Does it give you access to the callchain 
in python scripts like you want?

David

      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-17 14:32 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
2014-05-17 11:24         ` Milian Wolff
2014-05-17 14:31           ` David Ahern [this message]

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