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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>,
	Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] bpf: fix bpf_perf_event_read() helper
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:41:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151022124142.GQ17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5628D6EC.3040606@huawei.com>

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 08:30:36PM +0800, Wangnan (F) wrote:
> I have a question on inherit, not related to this patch:
> Is it safe for perf to disable attr->inherit if the event is system wide?
> I haven't read relate code completely. In my current knowledge the behavior
> of a system wide perf event should be same whether inherit is set or not.
> Is that true?

Yes, .inherit is pointless for cpu wide events, if we allow creating cpu
events with .inherit set that's unfortunate.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-22 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-21 22:58 [PATCH v2 net-next] bpf: fix bpf_perf_event_read() helper Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-22  4:49 ` Wangnan (F)
2015-10-22  5:00   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-22  5:30     ` Wangnan (F)
2015-10-22  5:31 ` Wangnan (F)
2015-10-22  6:21   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-22  7:39     ` Wangnan (F)
2015-10-22 15:51       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-22 12:30 ` Wangnan (F)
2015-10-22 12:41   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-10-22 13:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-22 15:53   ` Alexei Starovoitov

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