Stephane Eranian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This patch contains the kernel-level API support. > > NACK. No one should call this from kernel space. > > Well, that's what I initially thought too but there is a need from > the SystemTap people and given the way they set things up, it is > hard to do it from user level. [...]
Whether one uses systemtap, raw kprobes, or some specialized tracing/stats-collecting patch surely forthcoming, kernel-level APIs would be needed to perform fine-grained kernel-scope measurements using these counters. - FChE _______________________________________________ perfmon mailing list [email protected] http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/perfmon/
