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Subject: Re: Two fixes for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3
To: movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com (John Levon)
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 20:42:48 +0100 (BST)
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> I'll genuinely take on board advice on how I can profile all the system
> via x86 perf counters efficiently without having to patch the kernel.
> The old way just uses sys_call_table. So what do I do now ?

The obvious thing is to represent it as a device. I'm not familiar enough
with the existing perfctr work to know how well that works out.

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