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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: andi-suse@firstfloor.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
	markus.t.metzger@gmail.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
	roland@redhat.com, mtk.manpages@gmail.com,
	eranian@googlemail.com, juan.villacis@intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, ptrace: in-kernel BTS interface
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:26:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080430052631.3d182670.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080430135440.A359@sedona.ch.intel.com>

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:54:40 +0200 Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> wrote:

> Provide an in-kernel interface to Branch Trace Store and implement the
> ptrace user interface on top of it.
> 
> Fix a few bugs that were detected during the perfmon2 adaptation to
> the DS interface by Stephane Eranian.
> 
> The ptrace implementation becomes a rather thin layer that only
> forwards requests.
> 
> The BTS interface may later be morphed into a utrace interface for
> execution trace, or it may be used to implement such a utrace
> interface on top of it.

This appears to be against a version of x86-ptrace-pebs-support
which I don't have.

I dropped everything - let's start again.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-30 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-30 11:54 [patch] x86, ptrace: in-kernel BTS interface Markus Metzger
2008-04-30 12:26 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-04-30 12:43   ` Metzger, Markus T
2008-04-30 12:55     ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-30 13:03 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-30 15:30   ` Metzger, Markus T
2008-04-30 16:06     ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-05  6:25       ` Metzger, Markus T
2008-05-03  1:43 ` Roland McGrath
2008-05-03  8:45   ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-05  9:09   ` Metzger, Markus T
2008-05-05 23:03     ` Roland McGrath
2008-05-06  6:39       ` stephane eranian

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