Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Wed Nov 14 2007 - 19:24:18 EST


Andi Kleen writes:

> > This only works when counting (not sampling) and only for self-monitoring.
>
> It works for global monitoring too.

How would you provide access to the counters of another process?
Through an extension to ptrace perhaps?

Paul.
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