Re: perf not capturing stack traces

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Sat Jan 24 2015 - 10:12:13 EST


Em Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 04:37:45PM -0600, Felipe Balbi escreveu:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 05:59:59PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 01:51:28PM -0600, Felipe Balbi escreveu:
> > > I'm using v3.19-rc5 on an ARM Cortex A9 board. Unfortunately, perf is
> > > not able to capture any stack traces even though I CONFIG_STACKTRACE,
> > > CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND all enabled.
> > >
> > > I wonder if anybody else is facing similar issues.
> >
> > Did it work with a previous kernel?
>
> haven't checked with this board. First time I tried to use perf for
> anything.

And it is the first time I've heard about such a problem, not dealing
with ARM myself, so I guess this is a case for looking if there was some
previous kernel where this worked, then trying to bisect where the
problem was introduced :-\

- Arnaldo
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