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Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:39:43 -0500
From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] perf: integrate liblockdep support into perf
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On 02/03/2013 06:05 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> liblockdep is simply userspace lockdep. We can use that to analyze and
>> verify the locking in perf.
>>
>> Usage is simple, to compile perf with liblockdep all that's needed it:
>>
>> 	make LIBLOCK=[path to liblockdep]
> 
> Nice idea.
> 
> I'd suggest to link it in directly, like we link in 
> libtraceevents.
> 
> Then it could be built via something like:
> 
>    make LOCKDEP=1
> 
> or so.
> 

Sounds good, I'll resend the series.


Thanks,
Sasha