[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1248289] Re: Missing libunwind support in perf

2014-01-13 Thread Mark Nelson
Hi Tim, Sorry to respond so late to this, hadn't seen your question earlier and have been bogged down with holidays. I've not seen -g dwarf work yet in a stock ubuntu kernel, but have seen it work in custom kernel compiles. Unfortunately I don't have any raring machines handy at the moment to ver

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1248289] Re: Missing libunwind support in perf

2013-11-05 Thread Mark Nelson
jtaylor: Yep, this is saucy. Just upgraded in fact for the newer stock kernel and hoping that dwarf support would be there. :) I work on Ceph at Inktank and there are times when we are debugging customer clusters with stock kernels where having unwind support in perf would be very useful. It w

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1248289] [NEW] Missing libunwind support in perf

2013-11-05 Thread Mark Nelson
Public bug reported: Hi, I'm trying to use perf's libunwind support in 13.04 with kernel 3.11.0-12-generic on amd64. Typically you can do this by using the "-g dwarf" flag, but it appears the perf command included in linux- tools-3.11.0-12-generic was not compiled with libunwind. This may be as