Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:09:42 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] BTS overflow handling, was: [PATCH] perf_counter: Fix a race on perf_counter_ctx |
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* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> > In any case, this is getting late for the upcoming merge window. > > Would you rather drop the BTS patch or disable kernel tracing? > > I don't think we need to drop it, at worst we could defer the > patch to .33, but I think we can indeed get away with disabling > the kernel tracing for now.
That could be done via a simple patch that does not enable BTS tracing if the .kernel attribute bit is set. I.e. we enable BTS on a narrower set of config settings than in the past - but still keep the code largely untouched.
Ingo
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