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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:08:55 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
        Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] perf_events and hw_breakpoints fix and cleanup
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:01:17PM -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> Fixes a bug in the way that hardward breakpoints pass around [v]pids.
> 
> The last two patches move the pid resolution closer to the syscall
> and avoid passing pids entirely so that the perf event code does not
> need to worry about being in the wrong pid namespace when kernel
> counters are created.
> 
> NOTE: Applies to -tip perf/core. Compile-tested only at the moment.



Thanks a lot, I'll test that and push for -tip + backport in no big problem
arise.