Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:03:53 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
       Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] perf: Add 'perf kmem' tool
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* Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > (2) doing "perf kmem record" on machine A (think embedded here) and 
> > then "perf kmem report" on machine B. I haven't tried kmemtrace-user 
> > for a while but it did support both of them quite nicely at some 
> > point.
> 
> Everything needed and machine-specific will be recorded in perf.data, 
> so this should already been supported. I'll try it.

Right now the DSOs are not recorded in the perf.data - but it would be 
useful to add it and to turn perf.data into a self-sufficient capture of 
all relevant data, which can be analyzed on any box.

	Ingo
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