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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf probe: Ignore tail calls to probed functions
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 10:40:41 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150512134041.GD29215@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5542BDC5.90609@hitachi.com>

Em Fri, May 01, 2015 at 08:41:57AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> On 2015/04/30 23:58, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> > The frame ends at 0xc0000000000bc27c. I suppose this is why this 
> > particular call is a "tail" call. FWIW, systemtap seems to ignore these 
> > as well and requires users to explicitly place probes at these call 
> > sites if necessary. I print out the caller so that users know.
> 
> Ah, OK. That is out of the function frame, thus we can't put probe on it.
> Hmm, we'd better wait for improvement of tail call support in dwarf...
> Anyway, at this point, I'm OK for ignoring the probe point.
> 
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-12 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-30 11:42 [PATCH] perf probe: Ignore tail calls to probed functions Naveen N. Rao
2015-04-30 13:06 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-04-30 14:58   ` Naveen N. Rao
2015-04-30 23:41     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-05-12 13:40       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2015-05-15  6:46 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Naveen N. Rao

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