Re: [request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> wrote:
>
>  > > perfctr has one API update pending, and then the API should be
>   > > in it final-ish form. David Gibson at IBM has done a ppc64 port,
>   > > which is about ready to be merged, and someone else has just
>   > > started working on a mips port.
>   > > 
>   > 
>   > That sounds good.  Where do we stand now with ia64?  Do we just end up
>   > agreeing to differ?
> 
>  I think so, yes.
> 
>  The ia64 perfmon has some features perfctr doesn't have,
>  but my perfctr API changes will allow perfctr to grow its
>  feature list and adapt to HW changes without breaking the API.
>  Its unlikely that perfctr will ever implement everything
>  perfmon does, but multiplexing and overflow sample buffering
>  are two features that should be added at some point.

Oh well, at least we tried.  perfctr supports a lot of architectures and a
fair few people want it, so let's get this merged up.

Let's get the ppc64 port included too, just in case that forces
late-breaking API changes.