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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test ker
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Vince Weaver |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels |
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Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:03:37 -0500 (EST) |
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Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> I've never heard ABI incompatibility used as an argument for perf. Ingo?
Never overtly. They're too clever for that.
In any case, as a primary developer of a library (PAPI) that uses the
perf_events ABI I have to say that having perf in the kernel has been a
*major* pain for us.
Unlike the perf developers, we *do* have to maintain backwards
compatability. And we have a lot of nasty code in PAPI to handle this.
Entirely because the perf_events ABI is not stable. It's mostly stable,
but there are enough regressions to be a pain.
It's problem enough that there's no way to know what version of the
perf_event abi you are running against and we have to guess based on
kernel version. This gets "fun" because all of the vendors have
backported seemingly random chunks of perf_event code to their older
kernels.
And it often does seem as the perf developers don't care when something
breaks in perf_events if it doesn't affect perf users.
For example, the new NMI watchdog severely breaks perf_event event
allocation if you are using FORMAT_GROUP. perf doesn't use this though,
so none of the kernel developers seem to care. And unless I can quickly
come up with a patch as an outsider, a few kernel versions will go by and
the kernel devs will declare "well it was broken so long, now we don't
have to fix it". Fun.
Vince
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Avi Kivity, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Anthony Liguori, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Anthony Liguori, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Ted Ts'o, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Ted Ts'o, 2011/11/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels,
Vince Weaver <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Ingo Molnar, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Frank Ch. Eigler, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to test kernels, Ted Ts'o, 2011/11/07
- [Qemu-devel] [F.A.Q.] perf ABI backwards and forwards compatibility, Ingo Molnar, 2011/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [F.A.Q.] perf ABI backwards and forwards compatibility, Peter Zijlstra, 2011/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [F.A.Q.] perf ABI backwards and forwards compatibility, Ingo Molnar, 2011/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [F.A.Q.] perf ABI backwards and forwards compatibility, Theodore Tso, 2011/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [F.A.Q.] perf ABI backwards and forwards compatibility, Pekka Enberg, 2011/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [F.A.Q.] perf ABI backwards and forwards compatibility, Theodore Tso, 2011/11/08