linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf/x86/intel/bts: Small fixes

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Message-ID: <20191210174047.GQ2844@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:40:47 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf/x86/intel/bts: Small fixes

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 05:28:51PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> Hi Peter and Ingo,
> 
> Here are two small fixes that resulted from running perf_fuzzer on a !KPTI
> kernel. One is a misguided and unannotated warning and another is a sketchy
> use of page_private(). The choice between deleting the BTS driver and
> fixing it is not obvious, though. It may theoretically still have users.
> 
> Alexander Shishkin (2):
>   perf/x86/intel/bts: Remove a silly warning
>   perf/x86/intel/bts: Fix the use of page_private()

I'll squash the pair, that makes more sense to me.