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

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Message-ID: <87eexbcd1e.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Dec 2019 13:33:17 +0200
From:   Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf/x86/intel/bts: Small fixes

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> writes:

> 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.

Thanks!