On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:02:55 +0100 Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Note, WTF is perf checking the magic number for debugfs?? If events > > move, even if its at the same path, this will break perf! > > good question.. it's there since 2009: > f6bdafef2ab9 perf_counter: Add tracepoint support to perf list, perf stat > > I guess we didn't want anyone to trick us with fake tracepoints ;-) But that would be a feature not a bug. I could imagine admins doing this for some work around. But can we nuke that check? I don't think it's very useful. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
