Re: [patch 2/2] procfs: provide stack information for threads V0.10

Stefani Seibold
2009-06-24T15:50:16Z

Am Mittwoch, den 24.06.2009, 17:20 +0200 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> * Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > this is the newest version of the formaly named "detailed stack info"
> > patch which give you a better overview of the userland application stack
> > usage, especially for embedded linux.
> >
> > Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage
> > which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value. But you get no
> > information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads.
> >
> > There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which
> > marks the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread
> > stack xxxxxxxx]". xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack. This is a
> > value information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack
> > to the top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage.
> >
> > A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like:
> >
> > 08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/z
> > 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/z
> > 0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
> > a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
> > a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [thread stack: 001ff4b4]
>
> I have the same question as before: have you checked the use of that
> field in tools/perf/builtin-record.c, and how your change will
> impact that?
>

Good question... i have another one: What is tools/perf/builtin-record.c
and where can i find it? Then i could check it.

> Ingo