* Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I could write the patch to completely invert the
> > exclude_guest logic -- make it include_guest. That breaks
> > all existing perf binaries as well - just a different syntax
> > that gets broken. That regression is acceptable?
>
> It's not a regression since THAT CODE NEVER WORKED, for
> chissake! The case of people actually profiling into virtual
> machines crashes the running VMs, as you say. There's no way
> in hell we can call it a regression to say "you now have to
> use a flag if you profile a load with virtualization", since
> there wasn't any working case to begin with.
Correct.
::include_guest looks like the more logical flag direction to
use in any case.
Thanks,
Ingo
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