[PATCH 0/3] coresight: Don't use contextID with PID namespaces

Kim Phillips kim.phillips at arm.com
Wed May 16 10:44:51 PDT 2018


On Tue, 15 May 2018 11:13:34 -0600
Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org> wrote:

> Since the in-kernel value of a PID differs from what is seen from 
> PID namespaces, using contextID tracing with PID namespaces makes the
> feature confusing to use and potentially subject to leaking out internal
> kernel information.
> 
> This set returns an error if contextID and PID namespaces are used in
> conjunction and gets rid of the vpid-to-pid translation function as it
> is no longer needed.

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at arm.com>

Thanks,

Kim



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