linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [1/3] Provide rdtscll() asm/msr.h for user space

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Message-ID: <48EBF4A2.4080202@kernel.org>
Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:45:38 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/3] Provide rdtscll() asm/msr.h for user space

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> -Andi (who never got this strange meme which is floating around
> in the kernel community for some time that cut'n'pasting interfaces
> into user programs is a sane thing. To me it seems insane.)
> 

Not "cutting and pasting".  Librarizing.

FWIW, I started a git tree for these kinds of stuff at:

	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/cpu/libx86/libx86.git

	-hpa
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