Re: [PATCH 13/21] perf, c2c: Add callchain support

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Tue Feb 18 2014 - 08:07:48 EST


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:29:08PM -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> Seeing cacheline statistics is useful by itself. Seeing the callchain
> for these cache contentions saves time tracking things down.
>
> This patch tries to add callchain support. I had to use the generic
> interface from a previous patch to output things to stdout easily.
>
> Other than the displaying the results, collecting the callchain and
> merging it was fairly straightforward.
>
> I used a lot of copying-n-pasting from other builtin tools to get
> the intial parameter setup correctly and the automatic reading of
> 'symbol_conf.use_callchain' from the data file.
>
> Hopefully this is all correct. The amount of memory corruption (from the
> callchain dynamic array) seems to have dwindled done to nothing. :-)

hum.. report command already has all this.. if we could go the
hist_entry way, there'd be no need to reiplement this

jirka
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