Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf: Userspace event

From: Pawel Moll
Date: Fri Sep 26 2014 - 07:00:16 EST


On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 07:21 +0100, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> It looks like what trace-marker in ftrace does.. We might connect
> output of the trace marker into a perf event somehow.

I can probably trace_marker's write handler do the same as the new
prctl() would do. But this means that we really want the pre-defined
"zero terminated string" type (0). Otherwise, what type would be
assigned to a record originating from it?

Pawel

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