Re: corrected: tapset/script information template

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>]

Hi -

> I'm a bit confused by the semantics here. Is $dynamic_call_graph always
> thread local? [...]

Somewhat related, it may not be trivial to make oprofile-style data
gathering local to a given thread.  For one, the performance
monitoring hardware doesn't know about context switches.  Without
that, other contexts would also pay for starting the probes, even if
the probes return early.  Will/Brad, can the counter management API we
discussed two weeks ago deal with context switching awareness?


> [...] In general I need a way to test a thread-local condition so
> that I can only print out certain data under certain conditions, and
> I didn't find such in language.tex (yet).

We intend to provide syntactic sugar for thread/process-specific
values: "thread->VAR" would map onto "VAR[$tgid]", where "$tgid" would
be the value of "current->tgid".


- FChE