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On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:55:20PM +0000, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> > You could read the time using the group_fd's mmap() page. That actually
> > includes the TSC mult,shift,offset as used by perf clocks.
> >
> 
> Yes, but as mentioned earlier, that presupposes I want to use the mmap()
> sample method - I don't - I want to use the Group FD method, so
> that I can be sure the measurements are for the same code sequence
> over the same period of time.

You can use both, you can use the data from the mmap page to convert the
times obtained from the read() syscall back to raw TSC ticks for all I
care (in fact, that's what some people do).

Then your userspace can use saw RDTSC instructions and not worry about
scaling anything.