Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:14:41 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][1/6] perfctr-2.7.3 for 2.6.7-rc1-mm1: core |
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:04:17AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:53:11AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Also there should be a document or a manpage or something which describes, > > > > in detail: > > > > > > > > - the user/kernel API (separate document, probably) > > > > > > It also needs moving back to /proc/<pid>/ files from the syscall API. > > > > What does this mean? > > Early version of perfctr used files in /proc/<pid>/ for controlling perfctr > instead of the syscalls, and indeed that's a much better fit for most of them. > Let's ressurect that code instead of doing the syscall approach.
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