From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Iegorov Oleg" <oleg_iegorov@mentor.com>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
acme@ghostprotocols.net,
"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@infradead.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:16:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120731071600.GB2950@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343713645.20897.11.camel@twins>
* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 13:53 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Bloating the interface for something that is already well
> > > possible is.
> >
> > There's no 'bloat' worth speaking off: a single bit out of
> > an already allocated bitmap, plus a single check in an
> > already existing loop,
>
> Uhm, no. The existing prctl() loop is over the fd's the task
> owns, you want a loop over the fd's that monitor you. This
> needs new prctl()s at the very least.
We could add a new prctl if you think, but I thought to not
complicate it and offer it as a simple extension of the
semantics to loop over active events. No existing binary's
behavior will change.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-31 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-26 10:54 perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect Iegorov Oleg
2012-07-27 7:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-27 8:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-27 8:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-27 8:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-27 11:40 ` Iegorov Oleg
2012-07-27 11:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-30 20:04 ` Andi Kleen
2012-07-31 5:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 7:16 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-07-31 19:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-27 11:56 ` [RFD] perf: events defined contexts (was Re: perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect) Frederic Weisbecker
2012-07-27 12:45 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-08-06 1:41 ` Namhyung Kim
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-27 17:03 perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect Andrew Steets
2012-01-27 17:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-27 20:06 ` Andrew Steets
2012-01-27 21:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-28 12:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-28 23:48 ` Andrew Steets
2012-01-29 16:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-29 16:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-29 17:50 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-30 9:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-30 10:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-30 11:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-30 11:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-30 13:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-30 13:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-30 15:30 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-01-30 15:29 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-02-01 19:03 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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