Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] perf, persistent: Kernel updates for perf toolintegration

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:46:34AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> If already existing persistent events show up somewhere in sysfs
> (or in a separate pseudofilesystem) then an open() of them [given
> sufficient privileges of the caller, etc.] could attach to them.

Yep, I think we want to say sys_perf_event_open(attr.persistent=1) which
would give you a file descriptor to an already existing persistent event
with attr.config=<id>.

If it doesn't exist, it creates it.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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