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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Enhance perf to collect KVM guest os statistics from host side
    On 03/16/2010 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>> The symbol server's client can certainly access the bits through vmchannel.
    >>>>
    >>> Ok, that would work i suspect.
    >>>
    >>> Would be nice to have the symbol server in tools/perf/ and also make it easy
    >>> to add it to the initrd via a .config switch or so.
    >>>
    >>> That would have basically all of the advantages of being built into the kernel
    >>> (availability, configurability, transparency, hackability), while having all
    >>> the advantages of a user-space approach as well (flexibility, extensibility,
    >>> robustness, ease of maintenance, etc.).
    >>>
    >> Note, I am not advocating building the vmchannel client into the host
    >> kernel. [...]
    >>
    > Neither am i. What i suggested was a user-space binary/executable built in
    > tools/perf and put into the initrd.
    >

    I'm confused - initrd seems to be guest-side. I was talking about the
    host side.

    For the guest, placing the symbol server in tools/ is reasonable.

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    error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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