Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964811AbaGIP01 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2014 11:26:27 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.219.46]:46422 "EHLO mail-oa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932729AbaGIP0X (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2014 11:26:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140709145343.GA2384@redhat.com> References: <1404857759-25105-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com> <87mwcj2b0z.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> <20140709145343.GA2384@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 17:26:22 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] perf: add ability to sample interrupted machine state From: Stephane Eranian To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Namhyung Kim , LKML , Peter Zijlstra , "mingo@elte.hu" , "ak@linux.intel.com" , Jiri Olsa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 05:26:20PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu: >> On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 00:15:55 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: >> > This patch series is the fundation for a future series adding >> > function value profiling. >> >> Probably a silly question: what is the function value profiling? > > I think he wants to sample the values of parameters and local variables, > etc, right? > > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-June/062950.html lists > some things you can do with that. > > Stephane, is that what you mean by "value profiling"? > Value profiling means sampling the values of function arguments passed in registers. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/