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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 01:13:57PM +0000, Andrew Murray wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 02:10:31PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I'll update the cover leter on any next revision. I'll try to be clearer next
> time with my intentions.

Could you maybe include it in the relevant patches too; like for example
the ARM one where we rely on set_event_filter() to DTRT.

So with the changelogs and subjects fixed I can take these patches and
then you can get on with cleaning up the individual drivers.