Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] perf inject: Add --convert-callchain option

Namhyung Kim
2026-01-13T21:15:08Z

Hi Arnaldo,

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 04:38:31PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 05:17:14PM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > There are applications not built with frame pointers, so DWARF is needed
> > to get the stack traces. So `perf record --call-graph dwarf` saves the
> > stack and register data for each sample to get the stacktrace offline.
> > But sometimes those data may have sensitive information and we don't
> > want to keep them in the file.
> >
> > This perf inject --convert-callchain option parses the callchains and
> > discard the stack and register after that. This will save storage space
> > and processing time for the new data file. Of course, users should
> > remove the original data file. :)
>
> This made me think for a while to finally realize this is not a general
> purpose "convert callchain" option, but one that converts to ip-based
> callchains specificaly, useful and probably can stay with this name, or
> maybe we could use --resolve-callchains as we use
> thread__resolve_callchain() for that anyway?

IIUC resolving callchain is to get DSO/map and symbol from raw data.
But I admit the name is general but have no other idea. :)

Thanks,
Namhyung