Re: [PATCH v0 04/71] itrace: Infrastructure for instruction flowtracing units

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> So I'd like to steer away from the ways in which hardware can be broken
> and talk about a usable interface, to begin with.

Just dump it into the regular one buffer like I outlined.

That said; we very much need to have at least two architectures
implemented for any of this code to move.

But we cannot ignore the hardware trainwreck; we cannot shape our
interface around something that's utterly broken.

Some hardware is just too broken to support.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/