Re: [PATCH 5.10 08/25] perf: Rework perf_event_exit_event()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-02-04T09:42:48Z

On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 10:37:35AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> >
> > commit ef54c1a476aef7eef26fe13ea10dc090952c00f8 upstream.
> >
> > Make perf_event_exit_event() more robust, such that we can use it from
> > other contexts. Specifically the up and coming remove_on_exec.
>
> Do we need this in 5.10? AFAICT the remove_on_exec work is not queued
> for 5.10, and this patch is buggy and needs following one to fix it
> up.

It's needed by the following patch, which says 5.10 is affected.