Re: [PATCH v4 05/13] arm: perf: conditionally use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jan 08 2019 - 08:11:33 EST


On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 01:07:41PM +0000, Andrew Murray wrote:

> Yes I found lots of examples like this across the tree whilst doing this
> work. However I decided to initially start with simply removing duplicated
> code as a result of adding this flag and attempting to preserve existing
> functionality. I thought that if I add missing checks then the patchset
> will get much bigger and be harder to merge. I would like to do this though
> as another non-cross-arch series.
>
> Can we limit this patch series to the minimal changes required to fully
> use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE and then attempt to fix these existing problems
> in subsequent patch sets?

Ok, but it would've been nice to see that mentioned somewhere.