Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf tools: Add missing user space support forconfig1/config2

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This needs to be a *lot* more user friendly. Users do not want to type in 
> stupid hexa magic numbers to get profiling. We have moved beyond the oprofile 
> era really.
> 
> Unless there's proper generalized and human usable support i'm leaning 
> towards turning off the offcore user-space accessible raw bits for now, and 
> use them only kernel-internally, for the cache events.

I'm about to push out the patch attached below - it lays out the arguments in 
detail. I don't think we have time to fix this properly for .39 - but memory 
profiling could be a nice feature for v2.6.40.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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