Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: disabling group leader perf_event | From | (Frank Ch. Eigler) | Date | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:30:59 -0400 |
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mingo wrote:
> [...] Do you know some interesting usecase that would be excluded > via such address restrictions?
You could study tracing-oriented runtime systems such as those of dtrace, dprobes, or even systemtap, to help answer such questions.
> Things like flexible arrays or more complex data structures such as > trees couldnt be used initially. More complex data structures would > need locking in any case. [...] I.e. it would initially be > restricted roughly to code where halting can be proven. Still looks > interesting to me [...]
There are years of experience out there to learn from. Note the sorts of filtering expressions (never mind control logic) used in the prior art, so that you can know what you're about to sacrifice by a simple-sounding implementation.
- FChE
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