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Date:   Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:01:09 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] perf/x86: event scheduling cleanups
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:15:55AM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:15 AM Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 6:11 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > These here patches are the result of chasing a bug in the TSX Force Abort
> > > patches.
> > >
> > > The first patch is simple and fixes the issue and should be marked /urgent and
> > > backported.
> > >
> > > The rest is the result of having a hard look at how all that event scheduling
> > > stuff worked while trying to figure out wth was going wrong.
> > >
> > > Stephane, since you were involved with writing much of that code, can you
> > > please have a good look? I _think_ I got it, but... :-)
> > >
> > Will do today.
> > But you did not send me PATCH 1/8 apparently.
> 
> Correction : I got it. Mail client had just moved it somewhere else!

Also please look at all 8, I'm reasonably sure 1/8 is correct, but it is
rather more ugly than I'd wish. So the remaining 7 clean it all up (and
effectively revert 1 again) but are much more invasive.