Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC 2/2] perf: Marker software event and ioctl | From | Pawel Moll <> | Date | Mon, 15 Sep 2014 18:18:37 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 16:43 +0100, David Ahern wrote: > >> Seems really similar to what I proposed in the past:
Yeah, it wasn't really hard to come with similar conclusions :-)
> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/27/159 > >> > >> Which was rejected. > > > > I took a look at that thread, but just barely, emphasis on that. > > > > Injecting something from userspace, a la ftrace, seems to be something, > > as tglx mentioned, "buried" in that patchset. > > Thomas object to an ioctl buried deep in a patch -- newbie mistake. > > Peter objected to the ioctl https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/1/229 > > It was not userspace injecting random data into the stream but rather > forcing the sample to be generated and added to the stream.
I would like to hear from Peter and others. If not here, I'll get them to talk next month on Linux Plumbers :-)
Pawel
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