Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf, x86: Don't allow unusual PEBS raw flags

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 12:43:04AM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> But that implies that you'd know that on Intel precise mode uses PEBS
> and that PEBS
> does not take cmask events. That seems to contradict the philosophy of
> perf_events
> where the kernel does the work for you.

This is basically raw event territory (hidden in a nice syntax). This is very
much a you're on your own case.

But it appears there's more behind this than was said; which makes this patch
submission duplicitous and trying to sneak one past the maintainers -- that's
very much not how things are done.

I'm not taking anything like this until the Changelog reflects the true
purpose.
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