Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752984AbYAWTip (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:38:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751515AbYAWTii (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:38:38 -0500 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:44937 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751486AbYAWTih (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:38:37 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] Userspace tracing memory mappings From: Dave Hansen To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: mbligh@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080123160454.GA15405@Krystal> References: <20080123160454.GA15405@Krystal> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:38:32 -0800 Message-Id: <1201117112.8329.9.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 683 Lines: 16 On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 11:04 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Since memory management is not my speciality, I would like to know if > there are some implementation details I should be aware of for my > LTTng userspace tracing buffers. Here is what I want to do : Can you start with a little background by telling us what a userspace tracing buffer _is_? Maybe a few requirements about what you need it to do and why, as well? -- Dave -- 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/