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From: compudj@krystal.dyndns.org (Mathieu Desnoyers)
Subject: [ltt-dev] lttng for nommu cpus
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:27:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081214222745.GA26498@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c918050812141120l2153f1a8oe9be5419c4ed116c@mail.gmail.com>

* andy (rootstrap at googlemail.com) wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I try to investigate performance issues on a cpu (blackfin)  that does
> not have mmu.
> I have ported a lttng patch, but unfortunately it does not work, as
> relayfs is not supported
> on mmu-less cpus.
> A Call to allocte buffers in relayfs lead to vmap(), which is not
> supported on mmu-less
> systems
> 
> Is there any flavor of lttng that has been reported to work on mmu-less system?
> Any links?
> 

The latest LTTng versions implement a ltt-relay-alloc module which is a
fork from the original relay. It does not depend on vmap'd memory at
all, so it should be fine with mmu-less cpus.

I'd be interested to merge your blackfin patches when they are ready.

Mathieu

> Thank you,
> Andy
> 
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2008-12-14 19:20 andy
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