[PATCH v4 2/2] arm64: Expand the stack trace feature to support IRQ stack

[Jungseok Lee]

On Oct 9, 2015, at 11:24 PM, James Morse wrote:

Hi James,

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> I think unwind_frame() needs to walk the irq stack too. [2] is an example
> of perf tracing back to userspace, (and there are patches on the list to
> do/fix this), so we need to walk back to the start of the first stack for
> the perf accounting to be correct.

I plan to do re-spin this series without [PATCH 2/2] since 1) Akashi's
approach looks better than mine and 2) you have the perf patches for [2].
This would help us to move forward.

Thoughts?

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> [0] sudo ./perf record -e mem:<address of __do_softirq()>:x -ag -- sleep 10
> [1] sudo ./perf report --call-graph --stdio
> [2] http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html

Best Regards
Jungseok Lee