[PATCH][2.6.11-rc3-mm2] perfctr-2.7.10 API update 1/4: common

2005-02-20 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Andrew, This set of patches form the first half of a major perfctr API update. The goal is to change the upload-new-control-data system call to be much more generic and independent of struct layouts. To this end the upload-new-control-data syscall will become ret = sys_vperfctr_write(fd,

[PATCH][2.6.11-rc3-mm2] perfctr-2.7.10 API update 1/4: common

2005-02-20 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Andrew, This set of patches form the first half of a major perfctr API update. The goal is to change the upload-new-control-data system call to be much more generic and independent of struct layouts. To this end the upload-new-control-data syscall will become ret = sys_vperfctr_write(fd,