Re: [GIT PULL 0/4] perf/core improvements

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>]

Em Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:00:09AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner escreveu:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ingo,
> > 
> >         Please consider pulling after at least Ian and Peter acks it:
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 perf/core
> > 
> > 	Peter already acked a previous version of this, so I left his acked by
> > there, this new one is much simpler than the first one he acked, so I think
> > he'll be happy with this one as well, Peter?
> > 
> > 	I tested it using the perf tools built from what is in tip/perf/urgent
> > and it works as expected, i.e. the new fields are just discarded since they are
> > stashed as a trailer in the MMAP, FORK, etc events, so old tools process new
> > perf.data files just fine.
> > 
> > 	Also the new tools works on older kernels, also tested.
> > 
> > 	Ian, if you prefer, please test it before Ingo merges it.
> 
> Did so. Have some odd fallout:
> 
>     tracepoint event: type 65535
> 
>     data->tid 2621441 data->pid 9
> 
> Investigating. Please wait

Thanks, as I said on IRC, perhaps I neglected the non-perf bits of perf
:-\

- Arnaldo

Guess even for people understanding that "perf" is not just about
profiling that name gets in the way, "observe" is the only thing I think
I would think in a potential rename, but heck, it has 3+ letters :-\