On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 08:10:41PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:26:47AM -0700, Drew Richardson wrote:
> > The layout of stack frames has changed over time. Testing using a
> > arm-linux-gnueabi gcc-4.2 from 2007 the original code didn't work but
> > this new code does. It also works with clang as well as newer versions
> > of gcc.
>
> Can you point to a modern ARM distribution where perf actually works with
> calltraces into userspace?
I am not aware of an ARM distribution where it works, that's the
problem. I optimistically said 'The layout of stack frames has changed
over time,' but I couldn't find any case where it worked (including
digging up an ARM compiler from 2007)
This is from 4.3-rc3 on Gentoo using 'perf record -ga ./dhrystone'
then 'perf report -g'.
1.36% dhrystone dhrystone [.] Func_3
|
--- Func_3
|
|--85.61%-- 0x59
|
--14.39%-- 0x7ec5d5ac
And this is after the proposed changes
1.99% dhrystone dhrystone [.] Func_3
|
--- Func_3
|
|--87.45%-- cmd_report
| Proc_1
| main
| 0x0
|
--12.55%-- Proc_1
main
0x0
The call stack unwinding isn't perfect, for example leaf functions may
not write a stack frame at all, but it's hopefully better than it was.
Drew Richardson
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