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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] perf changes for v3.8
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:30:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121213073056.GA13156@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C95A21.1010101@gmail.com>


* David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:

> > But doing it this way was wrong. Switch that "exclude_guest" 
> > attribute around, and admit that "H" was bogus, and that the 
> > right thing to do was to add a "V" flag that sets the 
> > "force_guest" flag instead.
> 
> I understand this is annoying. [...]

It's not annoying, it's outright broken - it's a regression that 
we'll fix.

> [...] Older binaries on newer kernels was the only case I 
> could not fix. [...]

The "only" case?? Old, working binaries are actually our _most_ 
important usecase: it's 99.9% of our current installed base ...

> [...] (I guess a message could be added kernel side to at 
> least give a hint.) But the alternative -- based on code that 
> has existed for some time -- is for older binaries to crash 
> VMs.

That should be fixed differently, by not breaking existing 
working functionality.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-13  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-11  9:09 [GIT PULL] perf changes for v3.8 Ingo Molnar
2012-12-13  2:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13  3:02   ` David Ahern
2012-12-13  3:09     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13  3:16       ` David Ahern
2012-12-13  3:25   ` David Ahern
2012-12-13  3:34     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13  3:43       ` David Ahern
2012-12-13  3:51         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13  4:31           ` David Ahern
2012-12-13  4:46             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13  7:27               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-12-13  7:30             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-12-13 14:30               ` David Ahern
2012-12-13 14:38                 ` David Ahern
2012-12-13 16:03                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13 16:24                   ` David Ahern
2012-12-13 16:33                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13 16:59                       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-12-13 17:10                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13 17:31                           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-12-17  4:43                             ` David Ahern
2012-12-22 19:22                               ` David Ahern
2012-12-23  0:00                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13 17:02                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13 17:30                         ` David Ahern
2012-12-13 17:36                           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-12-13 19:12                             ` David Ahern
2012-12-13  7:48         ` [PATCH] Revert "perf: Require exclude_guest to use PEBS - kernel side enforcement" Ingo Molnar
     [not found]         ` <20121217102000.GE11016@redhat.com>
2012-12-22 19:30           ` [GIT PULL] perf changes for v3.8 David Ahern
2012-12-23  9:23             ` Gleb Natapov
2012-12-23 23:17               ` David Ahern
2012-12-24 10:36                 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-12-13 17:04 ` [PATCH] x86: fix perf build with uclibc toolchains Florian Fainelli

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