Re: [PATCH V5 00/25] perf tools: Introduce an abstraction for Instruction Tracing

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:51:17PM +0200, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
> On 11/03/2015 9:33 p.m., Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >We'll get that sorted out eventually. Sorry for the flux, but its trying
> >to get it to a better, more fine grained state.

> >>I will send another revision of the patch set, but I am also
> >>considered renaming everything from "itrace" to something more
> >>generic. Possibly "auxtrace" or "hwtrace". Any preferences?

> >That should match whatever name is used for the kernel facility it will
> >handle.... both auxtrace and hwtrace looks too ambiguous...

> >cputrace perhaps?

> "cputrace" sounds a bit like what perf already does. I am leaning toward
> "auxtrace" which got Andi's vote.

> It is possible Peter is waiting on perf tools patches before
> moving the kernel driver patches. Are you amenable to taking
> more of my patches or are you waiting on the Alex's driver patches?

Can't this be submitted together? And with instructions about how to
test it, which hardware supports it, etc, so that we can try to find
hardware inside our corporate walls and test this as one piece?

I'm almost calling it a day, last thing will be to push what I have in
my perf/core branch, in a few moments.

- Arnaldo
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