Hi,
My apologies if this is going to the wrong mailing list.
Is there an easy way to enable support for perfmon2 in the fedora 9 kernel(s)? Looks like the patch for perfmon2 available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/perfmon2/
is only useful if patching a vanilla kernel? Any help and/pointers will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
- Ted Sume
Ted Sume Nzuonkwelle wrote:
Hi,
My apologies if this is going to the wrong mailing list.
Is there an easy way to enable support for perfmon2 in the fedora 9 kernel(s)? Looks like the patch for perfmon2 available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/perfmon2/
is only useful if patching a vanilla kernel? Any help and/pointers will be greatly appreciated.
It shouldn't be too hard to get it working. You just need to fix up the parts that don't apply properly.
We could put it in fedora but it's not upstream and nobody can say when or if it will go in.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:26:10PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
We could put it in fedora but it's not upstream and nobody can say when or if it will go in.
After the long drawn out pain that utrace has been, I'm somewhat reluctant. Especially for something that's providing additional userspace interfaces that aren't upstream.
Dave
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:31:33PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:26:10PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
We could put it in fedora but it's not upstream and nobody can say when or if it will go in.
After the long drawn out pain that utrace has been, I'm somewhat reluctant. Especially for something that's providing additional userspace interfaces that aren't upstream.
Perfmon adds a ridiculous number of syscalls, which means we *really* shouldn't merge it until they're reserved upstream, otherwise backwards compat woes will ensue. However, perfmon doesn't look like it is anywhere near being merged in the current form, so I'd rate it as unlikely upstream will reserve 10+ syscall entrypoints for it...
NAK from me...
cheers, Kyle
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