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SubjectRE: [patch] x86, ptrace: in-kernel BTS interface
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>From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org]
>Sent: Mittwoch, 30. April 2008 14:27
>To: Metzger, Markus T

>> Provide an in-kernel interface to Branch Trace Store and
>implement the
>> ptrace user interface on top of it.
>>
>> Fix a few bugs that were detected during the perfmon2 adaptation to
>> the DS interface by Stephane Eranian.
>>
>> The ptrace implementation becomes a rather thin layer that only
>> forwards requests.
>>
>> The BTS interface may later be morphed into a utrace interface for
>> execution trace, or it may be used to implement such a utrace
>> interface on top of it.
>
>This appears to be against a version of x86-ptrace-pebs-support
>which I don't have.
>
>I dropped everything - let's start again.

That was against x86.git#latest.

Do you want me to send patches against some other git? Which one?

You complained about the size of the patch. If we start over, I could
split it into 3 pieces, one for each layer.


regards,
markus.
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