On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 06:09:15PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 04:21:41PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > >> Peter, > >> > >> One thing that bothers me with the MMAP2 approach is that > >> it forces integration into perf. > > > > This is a good (TM) thing, yes? ;-) > > > > Well, that's one way to look at it. But I'd like the API to > be able to support more than one tool easily. If the barrier > for any advanced analysis is too high from the raw kernel > API then we will only have one tool. I don't think that sane.
Sure, but any half-way usable profiling will need the existing sideband data. So I don't think that relying on it for this particular feature is too much. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
