Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 10:43:14 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
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        Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf, x86: Don't allow unusual PEBS raw flags
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On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 12:43:04AM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> But that implies that you'd know that on Intel precise mode uses PEBS
> and that PEBS
> does not take cmask events. That seems to contradict the philosophy of
> perf_events
> where the kernel does the work for you.

This is basically raw event territory (hidden in a nice syntax). This is very
much a you're on your own case.

But it appears there's more behind this than was said; which makes this patch
submission duplicitous and trying to sneak one past the maintainers -- that's
very much not how things are done.

I'm not taking anything like this until the Changelog reflects the true
purpose.
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