On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 09:33 +0100, Eric B Munson wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 19:08 +0100, Eric B Munson wrote: > > > This patch adds a new software event for munmaps. It will allows > > > users to profile changes to address space. munmaps will be tracked > > > with mmaps. > > > > Why? > > > > It is going to be used by a tool that will model memory usage over the > lifetime of a process. Wouldn't it be better to use some tracepoints for that instead? I want to keep the sideband data to a minimum required to interpret the sample data, and you don't need unmap events for that. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href