From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932347AbaGIWU0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2014 18:20:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1749 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932139AbaGIWUW (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2014 18:20:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:19:58 +0200 From: Jiri Olsa To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org, acme@infradead.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] perf, tools: Add support for reading JSON event files v3 Message-ID: <20140709221958.GH20938@krava.redhat.com> References: <1403910964-11017-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1403910964-11017-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1403910964-11017-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Im confused, your branch shows v4 in patch Subject, while this patch has v3... ? jirka On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:15:58PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen > > Add a parser for Intel style JSON event files. This allows > to use an Intel event list directly with perf. The Intel > event lists can be quite large and are too big to store > in unswappable kernel memory. > > The parser code knows how to convert the JSON fields > to perf fields. The conversion code is straight forward. > It knows (very little) Intel specific information, and can be easily > extended to handle fields for other CPUs. > > The parser code is partially shared with an independent parsing > library, which is 2-clause BSD licenced. To avoid any conflicts I marked > those files as BSD licenced too. As part of perf they become GPLv2. > SNIP