Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New utility: 'trace'
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:03:43 +0100
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On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> 
> Would you be interested in helping out with (and testing) such a more generic 
> approach? 

how about having perf-record open a named pipe and rewriting everything
that comes in through that as an event and storing it in the buffer?
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