Re: [patch] x86, ptrace: in-kernel BTS interface

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:54:40 +0200 Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Provide an in-kernel interface to Branch Trace Store and implement the
> ptrace user interface on top of it.
> 
> Fix a few bugs that were detected during the perfmon2 adaptation to
> the DS interface by Stephane Eranian.
> 
> The ptrace implementation becomes a rather thin layer that only
> forwards requests.
> 
> The BTS interface may later be morphed into a utrace interface for
> execution trace, or it may be used to implement such a utrace
> interface on top of it.

This appears to be against a version of x86-ptrace-pebs-support
which I don't have.

I dropped everything - let's start again.
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