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H A D | sysctl.c | diff aa4a221875873d2a1f9656cb7fd7e545e952b4fa Fri Jun 03 16:54:40 CDT 2011 Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> perf: Comment /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to be part of user ABI
Turns out that distro packages use this file as an indicator of the perf event subsystem - this is easier to check for from scripts than the existence of the system call.
This is easy enough to keep around for the kernel, so add a comment to make sure it stays so.
Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1106031751170.29381@cl320.eecs.utk.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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