Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:11:22 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/34] perf, x86: Report PEBS event in a raw format |
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... NIH snipped ...
> If you do this inside perf, you have access to more infrastructure > code, e.g., dwarf. > For instance, I am interested in getting a value profiling mode. That > means sampling > the values of function arguments. That needs some dwarf support and the PEBS > machine state. With that you can produce a per function histogram of > the 6 integer > register args. You can certainly build anything in Python, but I don't > see the point > of this. Especially given that there is already some infrastructure > (and abstraction) > provided by Jiri's patch for PERF_SAMPLE_REGS.
Ok so please post some code for this.
I'm sure all your unwritten code is far greater than our written code posted on mailing lists, but it's not a very useful discussion this way.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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