Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] perf: Correlating user process data to samples

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Apr 18 2024 - 18:53:29 EST


On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 08:48:57AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 12:53:38 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 09:37:24AM -0700, Beau Belgrave wrote:
> >
> > > > Anyway, since we typically run stuff from NMI context, accessing user
> > > > data is 'interesting'. As such I would really like to make this work
> > > > depend on the call-graph rework that pushes all the user access bits
> > > > into return-to-user.
> > >
> > > Cool, I assume that's the SFRAME work? Are there pointers to work I
> > > could look at and think about what a rebase looks like? Or do you have
> > > someone in mind I should work with for this?
> >
> > I've been offline for a little while and still need to catch up with
> > things myself.
> >
> > Josh was working on that when I dropped off IIRC, I'm not entirely sure
> > where things are at currently (and there is no way I can ever hope to
> > process the backlog).
> >
> > Anybody know where we are with that?
>
> It's still very much on my RADAR, but with layoffs and such, my
> priorities have unfortunately changed. I'm hoping to start helping out
> in the near future though (in a month or two).
>
> Josh was working on it, but I think he got pulled off onto other
> priorities too :-p

Yeah, this is still a priority for me and I hope to get back to it over
the next few weeks (crosses fingers).

--
Josh