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Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 17:18:27 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Subject: Re: Q: perf_event && event->owner
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On 11/08, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
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> As to removing event->owner as Oleg suggests, its a published ABI and
> there might be people using it.

This was my main question.

It's a pity ;) This ABI doesn't look very nice, but OK.

Oleg.