linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/12] perf_events: add LBR software filter support for Intel X86

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Date:	Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:39:41 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acme@...hat.com,
	ming.m.lin@...el.com, robert.richter@....com, ravitillo@....gov,
	"masami.hiramatsu.pt" <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/12] perf_events: add LBR software filter support for
 Intel X86

On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 08:08 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> FUD is not how we approach these things - you need to say something 
> specific. 

Its Andi, of course its FUD. I mean, he's been telling us to use IRQs
for the PMI instead of NMIs for a while now. If we were to do something
daft like that this whole feature, which he does like, would be
useless/broken.

He really can't seem to make up his mind.

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