linux-kernel - Re: perfmon trouble

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFyg7W8G0fdJgqWEPRu4UeRd16EnkdR2uY1A_e1j8rZUGA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:59:50 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        "linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: perfmon trouble

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 11:51 AM Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> In the meantime, I agree with Matthew, simply disable
> PERFMON support.

Ok, since everybody seems to agree on that, I marked it BROKEN for
now, in the hope that nobody even notices and we can just remove the
code entirely.

And if somebody *does* notice, at least we would also have a
sucker^Wtester for any possible patches to fix it.

               Linus