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    SubjectRe: [patch] x86, ptrace: in-kernel BTS interface
    On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:43:20 +0100 "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> wrote:

    > >-----Original Message-----
    > >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.

    oh, ok. Hopefully this run-multiple-trees-to-confuse-everyone problem will
    go away soon.

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

    I'll let you and Ingo sort it out.


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