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Re: [perfmon] Re: perfmon2 TODO list


On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:22:36PM -0400, William Cohen wrote:
> Kevin Corry wrote:
> >On Thu April 13 2006 11:41 am, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> >
> >>I am a developer on the systemtap project, which Will Cohen has
> >>referred you to earlier in the discussion.  I thought I would jump in
> >>just to add/refresh focus on one important perfmon requirement for
> >>systemtap: a kernel-side API.
> >
> >
> >As I mentioned in my previous email, it seems like we ought to be able to 
> >do just a little reorg, and provide an in-kernel interface that looks 
> >pretty much identical to the system-call interface, and actually wrapper 
> >the system-calls around it. Perhaps I'll give this a shot today or 
> >tomorrow with a couple of the system-calls and send in a patch and see 
> >what everyone thinks.
> >
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Had a chance to see how hard it would be to provide an kernel-side ABI 
> for perfmon2?
> 
I have  some preliminary code to do this. I need to try and see how it
goes. It would be for system-wide only and counting only at this point.


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