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zznzz | 3 years ago

because this is about PMU based sampling, which involves triggering interrupts at some interval and doing the sampling while handling the interrupt

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titzer|3 years ago

Other than overhead, what is the advantage as opposed to handling the interrupt in the kernel and then delivering a signal to userspace? After all, isn't this the role of SIGPROF?