Re: [PATCH 2.6.x] additional kernel event notifications

[Andrew Morton]

"Villacis, Juan" <juan.villacis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Our sampling driver kernel module which uses these hooks is GPL
> and could be included in the kernel.org tree.

Ah, OK.

That code seems to have a lot of infrastructure for buffering samples,
transferring it to userspace, etc.

Have you looked into using the infrastructure in drivers/oprofile/ for
this?  In other words: is it possible to augment the kernel's existing
oprofile capabilities so they meet VTune requirements?


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