linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 16/20] sparc: perf/core: advertise PMU exclusion capability

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Message-Id: <20181126.100046.860156356512347227.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:00:46 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     andrew.murray@....com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/20] sparc: perf/core: advertise PMU exclusion
 capability

From: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:12:32 +0000

> The SPARC PMU has the capability to exclude events based on context
>  - let's advertise that we support the PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUDE
> capability to ensure that perf doesn't prevent us from handling
> events where any exclusion flags are set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>