From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753412AbaCJWOW (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:14:22 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:46742 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752439AbaCJWOV (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:14:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:14:20 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Ben Hutchings Cc: Andi Kleen , acme@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, eranian@google.com, namhyung@kernel.org, jolsa@redhat.com Subject: Re: perf: Add support for full Intel event lists Message-ID: <20140310221420.GM22728@two.firstfloor.org> References: <1394048978-15909-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1394480354.23624.7.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1394480354.23624.7.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 07:39:14PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 11:49 -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > [...] > > I implemented an automatic downloader to get the event file for the > > current CPU. The events are stored in ~/.events. > [...] > > This directory should be placed under $XDG_CACHE_DIR (default: > ~/.cache), and should have a more specific name like 'perf-events'. Ok. I don't like calling it perf-events because it will be used by other non perf tools too. I guess pmu-events could do. > > It might be useful to also support a system directory for these, > under /var/cache. I don't want people shipping those. It just causes lots of outdated events everywhere, like in oprofile. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.