Re: It's time to kill statistical profiling

In reply to: Poul-Henning Kamp: "Re: It's time to kill statistical profiling"
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From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:13:52 UTC

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 01:59:53PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> Konstantin Belousov writes:
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> > You cannot remove a kernel feature without breaking ABI.
> > I do not see why do we need to remove it.
> 
> Which ABI would that be ?
ITIMER_PROF of course.  It is consumed by several language runtimes
for whatever reasons, see debian source code search.

I am less concerned about profil(2).