* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> wrote:

> For user space stack unwinding, the kernel could emulate what the kernel
> 'guess' unwinder does by scanning the user space stack and returning all
> the text addresses it finds.

User-space stacks tend to be much larger than kernel stacks, the cost of doing 
such a full scan on every PMI would kill a lot of profiling workloads.

Thanks,

        Ingo

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