Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf_events: fix validation of events using anextra reg (v2)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 16:37 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> The is_fake field is necessary to avoid a lockdep issue having
> to do with interrupt masking and era->lock.

Why not simply disable IRQs in both validate_* functions?
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