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

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 02:18:56PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 07:30:17PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:28:02AM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Because making them GPL would prevent any non GPL driver from
> > > using MSRs with tracing compiled in, which doesn't make any sense.
> > 
> > I know what EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL means - I'm questioning the need of making
> > them available to non-GPL drivers.
> 
> MSRs are not a GPLed facility.

Let me think of a similarly unrelated comeback: the sky is sometimes blue.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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