linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V15 0/7] perf/core: Add ability for an event to "pause" or "resume" AUX area tracing

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Message-ID: <Z0Yb3r6GjUZck77r@x1>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:05:02 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>, Leo Yan <leo.yan@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V15 0/7] perf/core: Add ability for an event to "pause"
 or "resume" AUX area tracing

On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 07:56:12PM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 26/11/24 19:16, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 02:59:02PM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> >> On 14/11/24 12:17, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> >>> Note for V15:
> >>> 	Same as V14 but without kernel patches because they have been
> >>> 	applied, and updated "missing_features" patch for the new way
> >>> 	of detecting missing features.

> >> Still apply
 
> > So the kernel part is in, I'll go over this after getting a machine with
> > a kernel with those features so that I can test it all together.
 
> To be clear, this is just a software feature, so any machine
> with Intel PT will do. Kernel can be from mainline tree or tip.

Thanks for the clarification, the way I wrote it was ambiguous, maybe
somebody would think I needed some specific machine with some
special/new hardware feature (some new Intel PT feature, that is), but I
understood that this is purely a software/kernel feature, needing only a
machine with "regular" Intel PT.

- Arnaldo