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\section*{Legal Statement}

{ \small
This work represents the views of the authors and does not necessarily
represent the view of their employers.\\
IBM, zSeries, and PowerPC are trademarks or registered trademarks of
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In brief, you may use the contents of this document for any purpose,
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and derivative works and translations made available, so long as
such modifications and derivations are offered to the public on equal
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Source code is covered by various versions of the GPL
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Some of this code is GPLv2-only, as it derives from the Linux kernel,
while other code is GPLv2-or-later.
See the CodeSamples directory in the git archive
(\url{git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/perfbook.git})
for the exact licenses, which are included in comment headers in each file.
If you are unsure of the license for a given code fragment,
you should assume GPLv2-only.

Combined work {\textcopyright}~2005-2011 by Paul E. McKenney.
}