Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:48:51 -0500
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: =?iso-8859-1?B?VPZy9ms=?= Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>, mingo@elte.hu,
       srostedt@redhat.com, sandmann@daimi.au.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing: identify which executable object the userspace address belongs to
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Hi -

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:41:45AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > Impact: modify+improve the userstacktrace tracing visualization feature
> > > [...]
> > > You'll see stack entries like:
> > >    /lib/libpthread-2.7.so[+0xd370]
> > > [...]
> > 
> > Can you suggest an actual distribution & architecture where this
> > facility may be tested/used?  It appears to require frame-pointer
> > stuff that AFAIK is not generally turned on for user-space.
> 
> gentoo, just rebuild world with frame pointers ;-)

Well, that only goes so far.  If this feature turns out unable to work
without distributors recompiling all their stuff on, for example, x86-64,
then expectations need to be reset.


- FChE
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