[perfmon] Re: perfmon2 TODO list

[William Cohen]

Kevin Corry wrote:
> On Thu April 13 2006 11:41 am, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
>>I am a developer on the systemtap project, which Will Cohen has
>>referred you to earlier in the discussion.  I thought I would jump in
>>just to add/refresh focus on one important perfmon requirement for
>>systemtap: a kernel-side API.
> 
> 
> As I mentioned in my previous email, it seems like we ought to be able to do 
> just a little reorg, and provide an in-kernel interface that looks pretty 
> much identical to the system-call interface, and actually wrapper the 
> system-calls around it. Perhaps I'll give this a shot today or tomorrow with 
> a couple of the system-calls and send in a patch and see what everyone 
> thinks.
> 

Hi Kevin,

Had a chance to see how hard it would be to provide an kernel-side ABI 
for perfmon2?

-Will