linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:58:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...glemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> So could you please clarify the situation?  If the ABI compatibility
> requirements remain the same as they used to be, whether the userland code
> is in-tree or not, I'm fine with the entire thing.  If they do not (and *ONLY*
> in that case), I think we have a real problem.

I think the ABI requirements are the same.

That said, I also suspect that as with oprofile itself, we'll end up 
having expansions of the ABI that may well be CPU-specific. I also suspect 
that there will probably be breakage early on just because things will 
inevitably settle. 

And I think that for something like a profiling tool, such breakage is 
much more acceptable than for the actual binaries you'd profile. It's not 
like we're talking about breaking the boot or functionality of a machine, 
as happens when we break the X server (which has happened).

		Linus
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