On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 12:43:04AM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > But that implies that you'd know that on Intel precise mode uses PEBS > and that PEBS > does not take cmask events. That seems to contradict the philosophy of > perf_events > where the kernel does the work for you. This is basically raw event territory (hidden in a nice syntax). This is very much a you're on your own case. But it appears there's more behind this than was said; which makes this patch submission duplicitous and trying to sneak one past the maintainers -- that's very much not how things are done. I'm not taking anything like this until the Changelog reflects the true purpose. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html