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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:33:23 +0100
From: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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       Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add munmap events to perf
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 19:08 +0100, Eric B Munson wrote:
> > This patch adds a new software event for munmaps.  It will allows
> > users to profile changes to address space.  munmaps will be tracked
> > with mmaps.
>=20
> Why?
>=20

It is going to be used by a tool that will model memory usage over the
lifetime of a process.

--=20
Eric B Munson
IBM Linux Technology Center
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