Get system-wide profiles of binaries without frame pointers

Many profiling tools on Linux have previously been limited by their reliance on stack unwinding algorithms that require commonly-used frame pointer optimizations to be disabled. This article introduces eu-stacktrace, a prototype tool that uses the elfutils toolkit’s unwinding libraries to support a sampling profiler to unwind frame pointer-less stack sample data.BackgroundDevelopers and customers find benefit in profiling the performance of their applications in both development and production e...

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