Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [patch] x86, ptrace: in-kernel BTS interface | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:43:20 +0100 | From | "Metzger, Markus T" <> |
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>-----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.
Do you want me to send patches against some other git? Which one?
You complained about the size of the patch. If we start over, I could split it into 3 pieces, one for each layer.
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