Re: [PATCH] profiling: remove prof_cpu_mask

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Jul 27 2024 - 17:23:03 EST


On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 at 14:20, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Only people who indulge in nostalgia will notice :)

... and the *really* nostalgic people will be happy that we're back to
the old days (pre-2004) with just a simple array that is addressed by
shifting the instruction pointer...

I wonder how many people actually use this ancient kernel profiling
thing. I get the feeling that it's "one real user and a hundred syzbot
test failures".

Linus