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From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: perf: kvm events analysis tool
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:06:09 +0800
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On 02/13/2012 01:32 PM, David Ahern wrote:

> [sorry for the top post - you would think Android would have a better mail client]
> 
> If the first patch is needed then kvm-events will not work with older, unpatched kernels. That's a big limitation from a perf perpective.
> 


The first patch is only needed for code compilation, after kvm-events is
compiled, you can analyse any kernels. :)