linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perfmon: add context switch hooks for x86

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Message-ID: <4821BA06.9020704@firstfloor.org>
Date:	Wed, 07 May 2008 16:17:42 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	stephane eranian <eranian@...glemail.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perfmon: add context switch hooks for x86

stephane eranian wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> Here is a first perfmon patch. It provides the following:
> 
>    - minimal perfmon source tree layout with a topdir perfmon for
> generic code and
>      the x86 arch specific subdir in arch/x86.

How much larger would a patch be that does at least something minimally
useful? (like context switching the performance registers)

-Andi
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