The Return of the Frame Pointers
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.
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