Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf/x86/cqm: Support cqm/mbm only for perf events

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 04:23:58PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >> Hence removing support for the parts which are broken rather than
> >> pretending to support it and giving incorrect data.
> >
> > Uh what, how about attempt to fix it?
> 
> No hope to do that by 4.6 release ... so I suggested to Vikas that it would be better to disable
> the feature now so users wouldn't be confused by the random numbers that they'll see if
> they try to do this.

Of course, that might have been useful information to have in the
changelog to begin with.

But seeing that its been broken for a number of releases I don't see how
this is urgent to stuff in this one.

I'd instead be more inclined to hurry with Stephanes patches..