Re: [tip:perf/core] x86, tracing, perf: Add trace point for MSR accesses

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Dec 04 2015 - 13:28:08 EST


> Any particular reason why those are EXPORT_SYMBOL and not
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?

Because making them GPL would prevent any non GPL driver from
using MSRs with tracing compiled in, which doesn't make any sense.

-Andi
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