Re: [PATCH] perf: Allow set output buffer for tasks in the samethread group

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 22:57 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> Currently, kernel only allows an event to redirect its output to other
> events of the same task.
> 
> This causes PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT ioctl fails when an event is
> trying to redirect its output to other events in the same thread group.

Which is exactly what it should do, you should never be allowed to
redirect your events to that of another task, since that other task
might be running on another CPU.

The buffer code strictly assumes no concurrency, therefore its either
one task or one CPU.


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