Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:58:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Al Viro wrote:
> > 
> > So could you please clarify the situation?  If the ABI compatibility
> > requirements remain the same as they used to be, whether the userland code
> > is in-tree or not, I'm fine with the entire thing.  If they do not (and *ONLY*
> > in that case), I think we have a real problem.
> 
> I think the ABI requirements are the same.

OK, then.

> That said, I also suspect that as with oprofile itself, we'll end up 
> having expansions of the ABI that may well be CPU-specific. I also suspect 
> that there will probably be breakage early on just because things will 
> inevitably settle. 
> 
> And I think that for something like a profiling tool, such breakage is 
> much more acceptable than for the actual binaries you'd profile. It's not 
> like we're talking about breaking the boot or functionality of a machine, 
> as happens when we break the X server (which has happened).

Sure.
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