Re: Re: Re: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON)

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jan 29 2020 - 14:36:44 EST


On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 08:06:45PM +0100, SeongJae Park wrote:
> > Perf can do address based sampling of memops, I suspect you can create
> > something using that.
>
> If you're saying implementing DAMON in 'perf mem', I think it would conflict
> with abovely explained DAMON's goal.
>
> Else, if you're saying it would be the right place to handle the DAMON
> generated data, I agree, thank you for pointing me that. Will keep it in mind
> while shaping the interface of DAMON.

I'm saying it might be able to provide the data you need; without damon.

Might; because I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for, nor
exactly what events we have that provide address information.