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

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Feb 27 2015 - 17:05:59 EST


On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 09:54:34AM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > perf record doesn't show where you're currently blocked.
> >
> > Of course it does; look at perf inject -s.
>
> Trace points don't support the LBR stack.

Yes, indeed. But would it not make much more sense to squirrel the LBR
state into sched:sched_switch and teach that inject -s thing to dtrt,
than to make a proc file that's available on all archs but will only
work on 1-2 x86 uarchs and only if you're also running the right magic
perf record at the same time?
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