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From:   Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Date:   Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:45:45 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event() (was:
 Re: [perf] perf_event_open() sometimes returning 0)
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Vince Weaver wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Mark Rutland wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 02:22:47PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > > 
> > Vince, does the below (untested) patch work for you?
> 
> 
> yes, this patch fixes things for me.
> 
> Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
> 

is this patch going to make it upstream?  It's a fairly major correctness 
bug with perf_event_open().

Vince