From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754740Ab0CGTEt (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:04:49 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:44378 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754702Ab0CGTEr (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:04:47 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:04:41 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Corey Ashford Cc: Fabian Korak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Perf doesn't accept i915:i915_gem_request_wait_begin as an event Message-ID: <20100307110441.50dca8cd@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <4B93F813.9080707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <4B93BF8C020000DD00024397@tula.rz.fh-offenburg.de> <4B93F813.9080707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:01:39 -0800 Corey Ashford wrote: > > I find the example given on that web page quite confusing because > perf currently doesn't have support for arch-dependent events like > that, except via "raw code" events which use the syntax -e > r. I wonder if they locally modified perf to handle those > events, and then forgot that they had made that modification before > posting up those instructions. these are just standard trace points... -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org