Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/lbr_stack

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 09:44:48AM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 05:49:57PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 03:43:41AM +0000, kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > 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?
> 
> perf record doesn't show where you're currently blocked.

Of course it does; look at perf inject -s.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1225774
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1225775
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