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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: eranian@hpl.hp.com
Cc: perfmon@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 perfmon new code base + libpfm + pfmon
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:32:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p7364f8jvjc.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060927224832.GA17883@frankl.hpl.hp.com>

Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> writes:
> 
> [ak] : separate patch for _TIF_WORK_CTXSW
> 	- I think I submitted a TIF patch for x86-64, but unlike i386 it is not yet in mainline

If it's not in mainline yet I lost it somehow and you should resubmit.

> [ak] : may have to add __kprobes to some functions
> 	- started doing this on some functions. Need better understanding on when to use this

Basically when you could recurse in kprobes. 

> [ak] : cleaner integration with NMI watchdog
> 	- integration done on AMD K8. Issues on P4, P6, due to PMU design

What are the issues?

> [akpm]: documentation for syscall? Is there an API specification?
> 	- answered. In short, there exists a specification but it needs to be updated

Probably you should have man pages ready for submission to the manpage maintainer.
That might also the second review pass on l-k easier if you supply
them in the description.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-28  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-26 14:34 2.6.18 perfmon new code base + libpfm + pfmon Stephane Eranian
2006-09-27  5:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-27 22:48   ` Stephane Eranian
2006-09-27 23:31     ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28  6:49       ` Stephane Eranian
2006-09-28  7:05         ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28  7:32     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-09-28  7:56       ` Stephane Eranian
2006-09-28  8:05         ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-29  9:30           ` Stephane Eranian
2006-09-28 13:41     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-09-28 14:04       ` Stephane Eranian

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