From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:32:39 +0000 Subject: Re: 2.6.18 perfmon new code base + libpfm + pfmon Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20060926143420.GF14550@frankl.hpl.hp.com> <20060926220951.39bd344f.akpm@osdl.org> <20060927224832.GA17883@frankl.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060927224832.GA17883@frankl.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: eranian@hpl.hp.com Cc: perfmon@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Stephane Eranian 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