Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:44:56 +1100

For instance, if you have something that kind-of looks like

read_pmds(int n, int *pmd_numbers, u64 *pmd_values);

where the caller supplies an array of PMD numbers and the function
returns their values (and you want that reading to be done atomically
in some sense), how would you do that using special files and fops?

The same way we handle some of the multicast "getsockopt()"
calls. The parameters passed in are both inputs and outputs.

For the above example:

struct pmd_info {
int *pmd_numbers;
u64 *pmd_values;
int n;
} *p;

buffer_size = N;
p = malloc(buffer_size);
p->pmd_numbers = p + foo;
p->pmd_values = p + bar;
p->n = whatever(N);
err = read(fd, p, N);

It's definitely doable, use your imagination.

You can encode all kinds of operation types into the
header as well.

Another alternative is to use generic netlink.
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