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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:52:25 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
To: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v0 00/71] perf: Add support for Intel Processor Trace
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Em Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:36:12PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> This patchset adds support for Intel Processor Trace (PT) extension [1] of
> Intel Architecture that allows the capture of information about software
> execution flow, to the perf kernel and userspace infrastructure. We
> provide an abstraction for it called "itrace" for "instruction
> trace" ([2]).

Nice stuff! And big patchset, I'll start by cherry picking the tooling
chunks that I find OK, will then comment on whatever is left.

While that happens I'm sure the new kernel bits will be discussed.

- Arnaldo