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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf: Userspace event
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:24:24 +0200
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* Pawel Moll <pawel.moll-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 07:21 +0100, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>
> > It looks like what trace-marker in ftrace does..  We might 
> > connect output of the trace marker into a perf event somehow.
> 
> I can probably trace_marker's write handler do the same as the 
> new prctl() would do. [...]

Please keep this new facility separate, so that !ftrace kernels 
that have perf events enabled still have this facility, etc.

Thanks,

	Ingo