Re: [PATCH v0 00/71] perf: Add support for Intel Processor Trace

[Andi Kleen]

> You're right it's extremely slow. But it can still be relevant for debugging,
> at least for apps that don't do too much CPU bound stuffs.

There are patches from Markus already for gdb to use it (using the old
BTS perf interface). I'm not sure they have been merged into gdb
mainline yet though.

> My hope has always been that we can make a userspace function graph tracer
> out of its dumps. And I think we can, I'm pretty sure that would be a useful tool.

I wrote one, based on the __fentry__, like the kernel:
http://github.com/andikleen/ftracer

BTS has no timing information, so you could at best do a function tracer
without timing.

-Andi
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