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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] x86: explicit call to mmiotrace in do_page_fault()
Hi Pekka,

On Feb 9, 2008 8:23 PM, Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> wrote:
> By default it reserves 32 MB/cpu of relay buffers during module init.
> It's this big based on experimentation with the nvidia proprietary driver.
> There is no other way than unloading the module to free the buffers, or
> even to clear them. This means that every time you start the user space
> logger application, it gets old data first. Also poking the module
> parameters via /sys is not allowed.

So how is mmiotrace different from, say, blktrace that has an ioctl()
to setup/teardown the relay channels (for mmiotrace it can be a
"status" file that does the setup/teardown when written some
appropriate values)?

Pekka


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