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authorJosh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>2017-07-24 18:36:57 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2017-07-26 13:18:20 +0200
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treebe03fe86edb9ebd70b4d29ca2bc8a4d972ff6644 /tools/perf/scripts/python/sctop.py
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x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder
Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y. It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework. It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and .orc_unwind_ip sections. For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to profiling workloads like perf. Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas: splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com [ Extended the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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