Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] perf_event: introduce 'inject' event and get HZ

Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-30T10:06:45Z

On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 10:36 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 10:28 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 13:21 +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> > > > 'inject' event is a very useful feature and it's suggested by Ingo
> > > > [ See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/28/31 ]
> > >
> > > I really dislike the name, event injection to me would be like a write()
> > > interface where you provide the actual event data to be stuffed in the
> > > output stream.
> > >
> > > This just seems like a very weird way of getting data out. A kind of like
> > > sysconf() but done very strange.
> >
> > What kind of API would you suggest?
>
> sysconf() seems ideal for getting single, mostly constant variables out
> of the kernel, we already have non POSIX (read Linux specific) names in
> there.
>
> _SC_KERNEL_RELOCATION_OFFSET
> _SC_KERNEL_HZ
>
> or somethings like that comes to mind.

OK so there is no sysconf() syscall and its all implemented in glibc,
which is utter suckage.. will have to come up with something saner then.