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From: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
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Subject: perf: multiple mmap of fd behavior on x86/ARM
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So I was working on my perf_event_tests on ARM/ARM64 (the end goal was to 
get ARM64 rdpmc support working, but apparently those patches never made 
it upstream?)

anyway one test was failing due to an x86/arm difference, which is 
possibly only tangentially perf related.

On x86 you can mmap() a perf_event_open() file descriptor multiple times 
and it works.

On ARM/ARM64 you can only mmap() it once, any other attempts fail.

Is this expected behavior?

You can run the
	tests/record_sample/mmap_multiple
test in the current git of my perf_event_tests testsuite for a testcase.

Vince