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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer allocation

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer allocation
Date 2016-09-23 17:30 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 05:27:22PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> > Afaict there's no actual need to hide the AUX buffer for this sampling
> > stuff; the user knows about all this and can simply mmap() the AUX part.
> 
> Yes, you're right here. We could also re-use the AUX record, adding a
> new flag for this. It may be even better if I can work out the
> inheritance (the current code doesn't handle inheritance at the moment
> in case we decide to scrap it).

What is the exact problem with inheritance? You can inherit PT (and
other) events just fine, and their output redirects to the original
(AUX) buffer too.

Is the problem untangling which part of the AUX buffer belongs to which
task upon sample?

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[RFC PATCH 0/6] perf: Add AUX data sampling Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-23 13:30 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer allocation Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-23 13:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer  allocation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-23 14:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer allocation Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-23 16:40 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer  allocation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-23 17:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer allocation Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-23 18:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer  allocation Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-23 19:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer  allocation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-23 22:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer allocation Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-26 10:30 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer  allocation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-26 11:10 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer allocation Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-26 14:50 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] perf: Move mlock accounting to ring buffer allocation Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-26 18:20 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 2/6] perf: Add api to (de-)allocate AUX buffers for kernel counters Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-23 13:40 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 3/6] perf: Add a helper for looking up pmus by type Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-23 13:40 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 4/6] perf: Add infrastructure for using AUX data in perf samples Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-23 13:40 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 5/6] perf: Disable PMU around address filter adjustment Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-23 13:40 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 6/6] perf: Disable IRQs in address filter sync path Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-23 13:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] perf: Disable IRQs in address filter sync path Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-26 18:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] perf: Disable IRQs in address filter sync path Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> - 2016-10-04 18:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] perf: Add AUX data sampling Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-23 13:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] perf: Add AUX data sampling Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-23 19:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] perf: Add AUX data sampling Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-23 22:40 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] perf: Add AUX data sampling Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-24 00:40 +0200

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