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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: add /proc/perf_events file for dump perf events
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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 21:02 +0800, Jovi Zhang wrote:
> > Watch all perf events in system wide can be very useful for perf subsystem issue handling,
> > to know which perf event is active in system,
> > perf event is a resouce, it would like to be managed easily for user, with more visable, like /proc/timer, etc...
> >
> > .jovi
> 
> 
> Ping... 

Never saw your reply, due to HTML it landed in the spam folder.

That's a pretty non-specific answer.. again, why are you interested,
what specific problem are you wanting to solve.

I've never had this need myself.