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Re:Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is... by DSingularity on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:02PM (#31123365)
I thought perf can also exploit Intel processor trace?
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Re:Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is... by cgaebel on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:55PM (#31124341)
It can! You can read more about how to do that yourself here: https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Perf_tools_support_fo....

magic-trace uses perf. If you want, you can think of it as a mere "alternative frontend" for the Intel PT decoding offered by perf.

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Re:Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is... by DSingularity on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:24PM (#31124876)
Ah okay, I misunderstood magic-trace to be an alternative to perf.
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