Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] perf_event: introduce 'inject' event and get HZ

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 13:21 +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> 'inject' event is a very useful feature and it's suggested by Ingo
> [ See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/28/31 ]

I really dislike the name, event injection to me would be like a write()
interface where you provide the actual event data to be stuffed in the
output stream.

This just seems like a very weird way of getting data out. A kind of
like sysconf() but done very strange.

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