Re: [PATCH 00/19] perf: Make perf_pmu_unregister() usable

From: Ravi Bangoria
Date: Sun Mar 02 2025 - 22:25:28 EST


Hi Ingo,

>> Lucas convinced me that perf_pmu_unregister() is a trainwreck; after
>> considering a few options I was like, how hard could it be..
>>
>> So find here a few patches that clean things up in preparation and then a final
>> patch that makes unregistering a PMU work by introducing a new event state
>> (REVOKED) and ensuring that any event in such a state will never get to using
>> it's PMU methods ever again.
>
> So it looks like this series first got lost in the usual end-of-year
> fog of holidays, then it has become somewhat bitrotten due to other
> perf changes interacting and creating conflicts. I cannot find these
> patches in queue.git anymore, other than the somewhat stale 4+ months
> old perf/pmu-unregister branch from October 2024.

Peter posted V2:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250205102120.531585416@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Same was pushed in Peter's queue repo (2025-02-03):
https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/log/?h=perf/pmu-unregister

Thanks,
Ravi