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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:00:02 +0200
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Cc: Iegorov Oleg <oleg_iegorov@mentor.com>, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, acme@ghostprotocols.net, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 09:26 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Maybe someone on Cc: would be interested in implementing this 
> new perf events feature? 

Why would we go build new kernel interfaces because userspace is silly?

It really isn't that hard to make userspace do what is needed, it just
takes a bit of work.