From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261786AbUFVJMg (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 05:12:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261793AbUFVJMd (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 05:12:33 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:24962 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261711AbUFVJM1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 05:12:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:12:19 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: mikpe@csd.uu.se, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][1/6] perfctr-2.7.3 for 2.6.7-rc1-mm1: core Message-ID: <20040622091219.GA32146@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , mikpe@csd.uu.se, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200405312218.i4VMIISg012277@harpo.it.uu.se> <20040622015311.561a73bf.akpm@osdl.org> <20040622085901.GA31971@infradead.org> <20040622020417.0ec87564.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040622020417.0ec87564.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:04:17AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:53:11AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Also there should be a document or a manpage or something which describes, > > > in detail: > > > > > > - the user/kernel API (separate document, probably) > > > > It also needs moving back to /proc// files from the syscall API. > > What does this mean? Early version of perfctr used files in /proc// for controlling perfctr instead of the syscalls, and indeed that's a much better fit for most of them. Let's ressurect that code instead of doing the syscall approach.