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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:27:14 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] tracepoint perf counter events and new ABI
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* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> These patches change the event tracer to provide id files:
> 
> [root@opteron ~]# for i in /debug/tracing/events/irq/*/id; do echo `cat $i` - $i; done
> 28 - /debug/tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/id
> 29 - /debug/tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_exit/id
> 27 - /debug/tracing/events/irq/softirq_entry/id
> 26 - /debug/tracing/events/irq/softirq_exit/id
> 
> These can then be used in profiling as:
> 
> [root@opteron linux-2.6]# ~/perfstat -e 2:28 make O=native-build/ -j4 lib
> ...
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'make':
> 
>    18280.657602  task clock ticks     (msecs)
> 
>             465  tp: 28               (events)
> 
>  Wall-clock time elapsed: 11265.199196 msecs
> 
> Showing that we had 465 irq_handler_entry events during that workload.

nice! I suspect perfstat could use "-e irq_handler_entry" type of 
symbolic input as well.

I've started picking up the patches and started testing them.
Thanks Peter,

	Ingo