From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Will Cohen Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 21:28:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] patch for ia64 oprofile support for 2.5.67 kernel Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org How are things going on the "custom sampling buffer format" patch? Is there somthing availble I can look at this time? -Will David Mosberger wrote: >>>>>>On Mon, 05 May 2003 17:36:03 -0400, Will Cohen said: >>>>> > > Bill> Comments? > > The patch looks fine for 2.4 purposes, but for 2.5/2.6, I'd much > prefer to see all PMU-related manipulation done in user-space (through > the perfmon syscall and/or pfmlib). I really don't want to have to > maintain _two_ subsystems that need to be updated with each new > processor. > > I talked to Stephane about this and he said he should have the "custom > sampling buffer format" patch ready in about a week's time. Once that > is in, you should be able to hook oprofile to perfmon with a trivial > glue "module". > > --david