Re: [rfc] perf p4 events aliases

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:21:13AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 11:13 -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 07:28:49PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > > Hi Don, if you have a chance could you please check if this
> > > patch does a trick for nmi-watchdog and perf top? The idea
> > > is to use aliases as being proposed early.
> > 
> > Hmm, didn't work for me.  The watchdog seems to work but 'perf top' showed
> > nothing (even after 30 seconds).  I tried this on Linus's latest -tip and
> > Ingo's perf/core -tip.  No luck.
> 
> Yeah I did the same. Without the patch, perf top works, with the patch I
> get nothing.
> 

In real it's good that it didn't find alias, since there a potential dead-lock
if event become alternative and alternative then found to be busy, i'm working
on it as well ;)

	Cyrill