From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751932AbaKXWhy (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:37:54 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:43482 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751113AbaKXWhw (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:37:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:37:36 -0800 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu To: Andi Kleen Cc: jolsa@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org, acme@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.organton, Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman Subject: Re: perf: Add support for full Intel event lists v8 Message-ID: <20141124223736.GA13184@us.ibm.com> References: <1406762570-16694-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1406762570-16694-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 on an i486 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14112422-0005-0000-0000-00000699281C Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen [andi@firstfloor.org] wrote: | Since it seems the download mechanism is controversal, | I removed the downloader for now until a suitable distribution | method with kernel.org can be established. This is just | the rest of the perf JSON event code that should hopefully | not be controversal. Ingo, Jiri, Andi, Can we get this patchset merged please ? It is a step forward in eliminating raw event codes right ? We added hundreds of events to sysfs for Power7. We don't want to do the same for Power8 because this JSON file solution is clearly better. But we currently have a regression in functionality from Power7 to Power8 :-( Even if 'perf download' is left out this patchset is still useful IMHO. Users (specially those who currently struggle with raw codes, are highly qualified and) could wget the JSON files as and when needed. Being able to install the JSON files and download updates is a big plus, but is something thse users can live without for now. Sukadev