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From: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-api@vger.kernel.org" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] perf: Marker software event and ioctl
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 18:18:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1410801517.3817.13.camel@hornet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5415B790.5010607@gmail.com>

On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 16:43 +0100, David Ahern wrote:
> >> Seems really similar to what I proposed in the past:

Yeah, it wasn't really hard to come with similar conclusions :-)

> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/27/159
> >>
> >> Which was rejected.
> >
> > I took a look at that thread, but just barely, emphasis on that.
> >
> > Injecting something from userspace, a la ftrace, seems to be something,
> > as tglx mentioned, "buried" in that patchset.
> 
> Thomas object to an ioctl buried deep in a patch -- newbie mistake.
> 
> Peter objected to the ioctl https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/1/229
> 
> It was not userspace injecting random data into the stream but rather 
> forcing the sample to be generated and added to the stream.

I would like to hear from Peter and others. If not here, I'll get them
to talk next month on Linux Plumbers :-)

Pawel


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-15 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-12 11:48 [RFC 0/2] Yet another take at user/kernel time correlation problem Pawel Moll
2014-09-12 11:48 ` [RFC 1/2] perf: Add sampling of the raw monotonic clock Pawel Moll
2014-09-12 11:48 ` [RFC 2/2] perf: Marker software event and ioctl Pawel Moll
2014-09-12 12:43   ` Christopher Covington
2014-09-12 12:57     ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-12 13:49       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-12 13:58         ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-12 16:19           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-15 17:27             ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-15 18:31               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-16 16:33                 ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-12 14:00       ` Christopher Covington
2014-09-12 17:37   ` David Ahern
2014-09-12 20:44     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-14 15:43       ` David Ahern
2014-09-15 17:18         ` Pawel Moll [this message]
2014-09-16  7:44         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-09-16 16:37           ` Pawel Moll
2014-09-16 17:58             ` Ingo Molnar

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