Bug#767756: glibc: Consider providing a libc build compiled with -fno-omit-frame-pointer to help with profiling

2020-02-16 Thread notafile
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020, at 14:15, Florian Weimer wrote: > Most unwinders should be able to use asynchronous unwind tables, which > only impact disk size (and the size of VM mappings). Experience with perf shows orders of magnitude of overhead of DWARF unwinding over fp based unwinding. The kernel u

Bug#767756: glibc: Consider providing a libc build compiled with -fno-omit-frame-pointer to help with profiling

2020-02-15 Thread notafile
Hi, I've been running into this myself a lot lately and wonder if anything has happened regarding this since 2014, after all it's been six years. I'm surprised so few people seem to be taking interest in this considering the amount of tools that rely on frame pointers for performant stack traces