From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754506AbbLDS2F (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 13:28:05 -0500 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([134.134.136.65]:25567 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751118AbbLDS2D (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 13:28:03 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,380,1444719600"; d="scan'208";a="834444396" Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:28:02 -0800 From: Andi Kleen To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, vincent.weaver@maine.edu, eranian@google.com, hpa@zytor.com, efault@gmx.de, peterz@infradead.org, jolsa@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, acme@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] x86, tracing, perf: Add trace point for MSR accesses Message-ID: <20151204182802.GF18534@tassilo.jf.intel.com> References: <1449018060-1742-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20151204121115.GA21524@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151204121115.GA21524@pd.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Any particular reason why those are EXPORT_SYMBOL and not > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL? Because making them GPL would prevent any non GPL driver from using MSRs with tracing compiled in, which doesn't make any sense. -Andi