[PATCH v4 2/3] Support for perf to probe into SDT markers:

Srikar Dronamraju srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Oct 28 17:32:00 GMT 2013


> >
> >But what if a system has both 32 bit libc and 64 bit libc?
> >Wont we could end up with 2 libc:setjmp?
> >Should we give some more intelligence into perf to choose the 64 bit
> >libc over 32 bit one?
> 
> You can just trace both of them by default, no?
> 

There has to be a one to one association with the event name and its
mapping.  Every event name will finally map to a unique inode and an
offset.

One option would be for perf to look at these markers and have a
different event name for similar markers in different executables. 

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju



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