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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:24:00 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 1/1] bpf: control events stored in PERF_EVENT_ARRAY
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 03:51:37PM +0800, Wangnan (F) wrote:
> Because I'm not very sure what the meaning of "inconsistent" in
> Peter's words...

What's inconsistent is that some perf actions can be done only on local
events while others can be done on !local.

And I can't say I particularly like having to pass in events from
userspace, but I think that Alexei convinced me that it made some sense
at some point in time.