Re: [RFC PATCH V2 2/9] perf: Extend ABI to support post-processing monotonic raw conversion

[Andi Kleen]

ersion. So the kernel internal mul/shift information has to be exposed.
> Ugh. Well, I think perf may have made a bad API choice here, so I'm
> still going to push back on exposting timekeeping internals to
> userland.

It's not about the perf ABI.

The perf mmap mult/offset if for PT, which always has raw TSCs.

Without it the PT decoder couldn't supply wall clock time.

-Andi