Re: perf: Support uncore in 4.9.112

On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 03:37:54PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:

182 files changed, 97061 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-)

Look at that, 97 thousand lines added :(

Yes, almost everything here is in tools/perf/ which leads me to ask why can't you just run a newer kernel's perf on 4.9 and have all of this support? Why do you need these in the stable 4.9 release in order for this to work properly?

And as you can see here, that's really way too big for a stable kernel release, how can you justify it based on the stable kernel rules?

thanks,

greg k-h