From: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org, acme@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add munmap events to perf
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:33:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100629083323.GA6917@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277755486.3561.140.camel@laptop>
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 19:08 +0100, Eric B Munson wrote:
> > This patch adds a new software event for munmaps. It will allows
> > users to profile changes to address space. munmaps will be tracked
> > with mmaps.
>
> Why?
>
It is going to be used by a tool that will model memory usage over the
lifetime of a process.
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Eric B Munson
IBM Linux Technology Center
ebmunson@us.ibm.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-29 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-28 18:08 [PATCH] Add munmap events to perf Eric B Munson
2010-06-28 18:08 ` Eric B Munson
2010-06-28 20:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-28 20:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-29 8:33 ` Eric B Munson [this message]
2010-06-29 11:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-29 11:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-30 11:01 ` Eric B Munson
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