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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:46:55 +1100
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
       "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
       Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
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       Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters
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Frederic Weisbecker writes:

>  /*
> + * perf_event_create_kernel_counter
> + * MUST be called from a kernel thread.

Why?  The reason for this requirement isn't obvious to me.  It would
be good to have the reason documented in the comment for the sake of
people modifying the code in future.

Paul.
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