[PATCH] Revert "perf: Require exclude_guest to use PEBS - kernelside enforcement"

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12/12/12 8:34 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:25 PM, David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>Are you running an older perf binary on the 3.8 kernel?
> >
> >I am.. I don't tend to rebuild 'perf'..
> >
> >>Does this work: perf record -e cycles:ppH  ...
> >
> >Yes it does. What is 'H' and why should anybody care? Especially since
> >I'm not running virtualized.
> >
> > That whole "exclude_guest" test is insane when there isn't 
> > any virtualization going on. Very annoying.
> 
> you know what's worse? [...]

No, nothing can be worse than breaking 99% of our installed 
base...

I'm wondering where this broke - is it:

  20b279ddb38c perf: Require exclude_guest to use PEBS - kernel side enforcement

Linus, does the straight revert below fix everything for you - 
or do we need to do more?

( The VM problem needs a different fix: a new include_guest bit 
  should be introduced, which would naturally default to 'off' 
  on older binaries, and the old bit should be phased out. Then 
  new perf binaries can turn on that bit safely. Or PEBS should 
  be fixed for guests. Or something along these lines - but 
  it should *not* by fixed by regressing existing binaries ... )

Thanks,

	Ingo

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