Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The reason for not using perf is because there is no current support > for uncore tracing in the perf facilities. Not unless you count $ perf list|grep -ic uncore 77 > We have our own format > of data and don't need perf doing the parsing. Perf has AUX buffers, which are used for all kinds of own formats. > A similar approach for implementing this function is ETM, which use > sysfs for configuring and a character device for dumping data. And also perf. One reason ETM has a sysfs interface is because the driver predates perf's AUX buffers. Can't say if it's the only reason. I'm assuming you're talking about Coresight ETM. > Greg has some comments on our implementation and doesn't advocate > to build driver on debugfs [1]. So I resend this series to > collect more feedbacks on the implementation of this driver. > > Hi perf and ETM related experts, is it suggested to adapt this driver > to perf? Or is the debugfs approach acceptable? Otherwise use Aside from the above, I don't think the use of debugfs for kernel ABIs is ever encouraged. Regards, -- Ale
