On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 04:21:41PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Peter, > > One thing that bothers me with the MMAP2 approach is that > it forces integration into perf.
This is a good (TM) thing, yes? ;-) > Now, you will need to analyze > the MMAP2 records. With my sample_type approach, you > simply needed a cmdline option on perf record, and then > you could dump the sample using perf report -D and feed > them into a post-processing script. But now, the analysis > needs to be integrated into perf or the tool needs to parse > the full perf.data file. So the disadvantage of the sample_type approach is that it generates more data and bloats the fast path. If its useful it shouldn't live in a script anyway ;-) Also if the script muck can't deal with the side-band information its a worse broken piece of crap than I thought it was. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
