Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf: Do not allow to create kernel events without handler

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Fri Aug 01 2014 - 11:20:10 EST


On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 04:56:37PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:33:00PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > Force kernel events to specify the handler, because
> > there's no use for kernel perf event without it.
> >
>
> I think I found a reason; although there is currently no such user, the
> simple counting events, they don't have overflow handlers at all.

ah right.. ok

jirka
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