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From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] perf: Allow to block process in syscall tracepoints
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 09:58:39 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> These patches give no justification *what*so*ever* for why we're doing
> ugly arse things like this. And why does this, whatever this is, need to
> be done in perf?
> 
> IOW, what problem are we solving ?

I guess the cover letter should have had a link (or copy) of this:

 http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181128134700.212ed035@gandalf.local.home

-- Steve