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Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:49:32 +0000
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Monday, November 19, 2018 11:46 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org=
> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:35:59AM +0000, Jordan Glover wrote:
>
> > On Monday, November 19, 2018 6:42 AM, Alexey Budankov alexey.budankov@l=
inux.intel.com wrote:
> >
> > > +>=3D3:
> > >
> > > -         Restrict *access* to PCL performance monitoring for unprivi=
leged processes.
> > >
> > >
> > > -         This is the default on Debian and Android [7]_ , [8]_ .
> > >
> > >
> >
> > AFAIK there is no support for '+>=3D3' in mainline kernel[1].
> > Debian and Android use out-of-tree patch for that[2].
> > Maybe someone should upstream it?
>
> NAK still stands on that. Alternative's have been proposed but so far
> nobody that cared seems to care enough to implement those.

So, I guess we can't document NAKed patches :)

Jordan