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On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 22:08 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> wrote:

> But there could be a perf_tp_event_ret() or perf_tp_event_check() entry that 
> code like seccomp which wants to use event results can use.

We should name it something else. The "perf_tp.." is a misnomer as it
has nothing to do with performance monitoring. "dynamic_event_.." maybe,
as it is dynamic to the affect that we can use jump labels to enable or
disable it.

-- Steve