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From: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-api@vger.kernel.org" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf: Userspace software event and ioctl
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:26:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1411730797.3852.23.camel@hornet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140926112312.GB9870@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 12:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > As in: allows *all* tasks to inject the data? Are you sure we 
> > don't want more fine-grained control, in particular per task?
> 
> Yeah. If the profiler allows it, then any task that is being 
> traced can inject data.

The "that is being traced" fragment was the key here. I missed the fact
that perf trace already takes a list of pids, so we're not talking about
all tasks in the system. That should work.

Paweł


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-26 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18 14:34 [PATCH 0/2] perf: User/kernel time correlation and event generation Pawel Moll
2014-09-18 14:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf: Add sampling of the raw monotonic clock Pawel Moll
2014-09-29 15:28   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-29 15:45     ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-18 14:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf: Userspace software event and ioctl Pawel Moll
2014-09-23 17:02   ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-24  7:49     ` Ingo Molnar
2014-09-25 17:20       ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-25 18:33         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-09-26 10:48           ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-26 11:23             ` Ingo Molnar
2014-09-26 11:26               ` Pawel Moll [this message]
2014-09-26 11:31                 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-09-27 17:14           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-09-29 14:52             ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-29 15:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-29 15:53     ` Pawel Moll
2014-11-03 14:48       ` Tomeu Vizoso
2014-11-03 15:04         ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-18 15:02 ` [PATCH 0/2] perf: User/kernel time correlation and event generation Christopher Covington
2014-09-18 15:07   ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-18 15:48     ` Christopher Covington

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