Re: [RFC PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 06:11:49PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> [...]
> your appearance is not correct. A perf counter is either attached to a
> task, or to a cpu. I use the later.

OK, that explains the "MUST be called from kernel thread" comment --
so that the ->owner and get/put_task_struct in the new create/free
functions all refer to that kernel thread.  Thanks.

- FChE
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