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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Oct 07 2008 - 19:45:56 EST


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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