[PATCH v4 08/10] Documentation: admin-guide: Add riscv sysctl_perf_user_access

Vince Weaver vincent.weaver at maine.edu
Tue Jul 4 05:28:08 PDT 2023



On Mon, 3 Jul 2023, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:

> -=================================
> +perf_user_access (arm64 and riscv only)
> +=======================================

so I complained about this when support for this went in for arm64.

Why do we have two separate ways of getting this info, one for x86 and one 
for arm64/riscv?

Could we get x86 patched to use the same interface?

It's a pain for tool users to have to maintain multiple code paths because 
the various architectures can't agree on how to export this info to 
userspace.

Vince



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