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Frederic Weisbecker 06d65bda75 perf events, x86/stacktrace: Fix performance/softlockup by providing a special frame pointer-only stack walker
It's just wasteful for stacktrace users like perf to walk
through every entries on the stack whereas these only accept
reliable ones, ie: that the frame pointer validates.

Since perf requires pure reliable stacktraces, it needs a stack
walker based on frame pointers-only to optimize the stacktrace
processing.

This might solve some near-lockup scenarios that can be triggered
by call-graph tracing timer events.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ v2: fix for modular builds and small detail tidyup ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-17 10:42:52 +01:00
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blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin 2009-12-16 10:52:35 -08:00
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m68knommu Unify sys_mmap* 2009-12-11 06:44:29 -05:00
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um elf: kill USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP 2009-12-16 07:20:12 -08:00
x86 perf events, x86/stacktrace: Fix performance/softlockup by providing a special frame pointer-only stack walker 2009-12-17 10:42:52 +01:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2009-12-08 08:02:38 -08:00