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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] perf: Add persistent event facilities
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:09:13PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 15:34 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > + persistent : 1, /* always-on event */
>
> Should creating something like that be privileged?

Yeah, I dunno, do we want that? Well, what it is when we enable an event
during boot, i.e. say "boot_trace=<event>..." on the kernel command line
and this event is enabled until we finish booting. Then we disable it
with perf or over debugfs. Is that privileged or can any user boot-trace
the system?

All good questions.

> And it looks like you allow creating persistent per-task events; is
> that useful, if so why? And like already pointed out, your cleanup
> seems broken in that case.

This was dumb - I wanted to have task-agnostic events which get enabled
for the whole system and there's a buffer on each CPU which collects
their output. It was a first attempt and it is a good thing you gave it
a look so that I can address the issues properly.

Thanks.

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