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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] perf_events: fix validation of events using an extra reg (v2)
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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 18:45 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 16:37 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> >> The is_fake field is necessary to avoid a lockdep issue having
>> >> to do with interrupt masking and era->lock.
>> >
>> > Why not simply disable IRQs in both validate_* functions?
>> >
>> Could do that too if you think that's cleaner.
>
> Its saner than making that code path conditional, but an alternative
> solution is to give the fake thing a different lock class.
>
Looks like using irqsave()/irqrestore() would be easier. Let me respin
the patch series for this.


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