On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 03:43:41AM +0000, kan.li...@intel.com wrote: > From: Kan Liang <kan.li...@intel.com> > > Haswell has a new feature that utilizes the existing Last Branch Record > facility to record call chains. It has been implemented in perf. The > call chains information is saved during perf event context. > > This patch exposes a /proc/<pid>/lbr_stack file that shows the saved LBR > call chain information.
But why? I mean, this thing is only useful if you have a concurrently running perf record that selects the LBR-stack stuff. And if you have that, you might as well look at its output instead. Why add this unconditional proc file that doesn't function on its own? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
