linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 01/15] perf tools: Add utility function to fetch executable

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Date:   Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:32:40 +0100
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/15] perf tools: Add utility function to fetch
 executable

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:56:14PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Add a utility function to fetch executable code. Convert one
> user over to it. There are more places doing that, but they
> do significantly different actions, so they are not
> easy to fit into a single library function.

fyi, Arnaldo added thread__memcpy based on your patch:

153259382633 perf thread: Generalize function to copy from thread addr space from intel-bts code

jirka