Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758269Ab0LCAoe (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 19:44:34 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([134.117.69.58]:40393 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753857Ab0LCAod (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 19:44:33 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 22:44:06 -0200 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Frederic Weisbecker , Ian Munsie , Mike Galbraith , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Stephane Eranian Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 0/4] perf/core improvements Message-ID: <20101203004406.GA18492@ghostprotocols.net> References: <1291318772-30880-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Url: http://acmel.wordpress.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1605 Lines: 43 Em Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:00:09AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner escreveu: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > > > Hi Ingo, > > > > Please consider pulling after at least Ian and Peter acks it: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 perf/core > > > > Peter already acked a previous version of this, so I left his acked by > > there, this new one is much simpler than the first one he acked, so I think > > he'll be happy with this one as well, Peter? > > > > I tested it using the perf tools built from what is in tip/perf/urgent > > and it works as expected, i.e. the new fields are just discarded since they are > > stashed as a trailer in the MMAP, FORK, etc events, so old tools process new > > perf.data files just fine. > > > > Also the new tools works on older kernels, also tested. > > > > Ian, if you prefer, please test it before Ingo merges it. > > Did so. Have some odd fallout: > > tracepoint event: type 65535 > > data->tid 2621441 data->pid 9 > > Investigating. Please wait Thanks, as I said on IRC, perhaps I neglected the non-perf bits of perf :-\ - Arnaldo Guess even for people understanding that "perf" is not just about profiling that name gets in the way, "observe" is the only thing I think I would think in a potential rename, but heck, it has 3+ letters :-\ -- 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/