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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/21] perf, c2c: Add new tool to analyze cacheline contention on NUMA systems
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:08:56PM +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> Assuming you can decode and get the info about the base registers used,
>> you'd have to do this for each arch with load/store sampling capabilities.
>> this is painful compared to getting the portable info from dwarf directly.
>
> But its useful now, as compared to whenever GCC gets around to
> implementing more dwarves and that GCC getting used widely enough to
> actually rely on it.
>
> All you need for the decode is a disassembler, and every arch should
> already have multiple of those. Should be easy to reuse one, right?

I know, and you want to pull this into the perf tool?


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