Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261702AbTIST7S (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:59:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261714AbTIST5B (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:57:01 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:20877 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261728AbTISTyM (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:54:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:35:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Villacis, Juan" Cc: jbarnes@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.x] additional kernel event notifications Message-Id: <20030919123500.023a2b40.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D372001732DEC70@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com> References: <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D372001732DEC70@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 20 "Villacis, Juan" wrote: > > Our sampling driver kernel module which uses these hooks is GPL > and could be included in the kernel.org tree. Ah, OK. That code seems to have a lot of infrastructure for buffering samples, transferring it to userspace, etc. Have you looked into using the infrastructure in drivers/oprofile/ for this? In other words: is it possible to augment the kernel's existing oprofile capabilities so they meet VTune requirements? - 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/