Re: [discuss] BTS overflow handling, was: [PATCH] perf_counter:Fix a race on perf_counter_ctx

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> 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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