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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf: add context field to perf_event
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:44:17 +0300
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Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
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	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
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On 07/12/2011 12:41 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> >  Using TIF_bits sounds like a much better solution for this, wakeups are
> >  really rather expensive and its best to avoid extra if at all possible.
>
> I would rather vote for Avi's solution too. Such a functionality is very
> helpful for LWP-perf integration as well (because we need a way to call
> do_mmap for a task != current).
>

It's not needed for that.  See use_mm() (caller must be a kernel thread).

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