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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: Question about Perf's handling of in-use performance counters
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:33:05 -0700
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> But the thing is still racy, and therefore useless.

At least the Hypervisor case is not racy. The Hypervisor always
uses that counter.

-Andi