On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 14:22 +0100, Metzger, Markus T wrote: > > The Debug Store interface is completely in-kernel. It does not expose > anything to the outside world. > > What we expose is a ptrace interface for branch tracing. > That this is built on top of Debug Store is completely hidden. > The Debug Store interface may be changed without impacting the > user-visible part at any time. > > I do think that a ptrace interface makes sense since debuggers are the > targeted users for branch tracing. > > I don't see why we should not merge the fixes now and then rework the > in-kernel parts as needed for supporting PEBS. Ok, so what is all that account_locked_memory() for? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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