Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 7 May 2008 16:24:49 +0200 | | From | "stephane eranian" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perfmon: add context switch hooks for x86 | |
Andi,
It would be much bigger because it would pull in a bunch of generic
and model-specific
data structures and code.
To context switch, you need to know what the registers are, thus you
need the PMU
mapping table, which is implemented by a kernel module, so it needs
its registration
framework....
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> stephane eranian wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > Here is a first perfmon patch. It provides the following:
> >
> > - minimal perfmon source tree layout with a topdir perfmon for
> > generic code and
> > the x86 arch specific subdir in arch/x86.
>
> How much larger would a patch be that does at least something minimally
> useful? (like context switching the performance registers)
>
> -Andi
>
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