Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v3

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-12-13T13:48:44Z

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> You have just irrevocably proven to me this needs to go into the kernel,
> as the design of perfmon is little more than a GPL circumvention device
> - independent of whether you are aware of that or not.

As long as it uses some sort of "module plugin" approach, perhaps coupled to
the firmware loader system to avoid wasting a ton of space with tables for
processors other than the one you need... you could just move all of the
hardware-related parts of perfmon lib into the kernel.

That would close the doors to non-gpl badness.

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Henrique Holschuh