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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:27:41 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4.16-rc4 2/2] x86/vdso: on Intel, VDSO should handle
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 07:01:20AM +0000, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
>   Sometimes, particularly when correlating elapsed time to performance
>   counter values, 

So what actual problem are you tring to solve here? Perf can already
give you sample time in various clocks, including MONOTONIC_RAW.