Re: [PATCH 2/7] perf, x86: Implement IBS initialization

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 15:46 +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> +static int perf_ibs_add(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
> +{
> +       pr_info("Adding event %p (config=%016llx) to pmu %s (type=%d) on cpu %d\n",
> +               event, event->attr.config, perf_ibs.name, event->attr.type, event->oncpu);
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void perf_ibs_del(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
> +{
> +       pr_info("Removing event %p (config=%016llx) to pmu %s (type=%d) on cpu %d\n",
> +               event, event->attr.config, perf_ibs.name, event->attr.type, event->oncpu);
> +} 

While I see you remove them later on, I do find it somewhat strange to
have them here. This is user triggerable code in the context switch
path, lots of nasty can come from this.
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