From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933035AbcJQN6G (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:58:06 -0400 Received: from mga07.intel.com ([134.134.136.100]:2506 "EHLO mga07.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932180AbcJQN56 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:57:58 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.31,357,1473145200"; d="scan'208";a="20474089" Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 06:57:56 -0700 From: Andi Kleen To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Weekly News , Jiri Olsa , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Sukadev Bhattiprolu Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/27] perf list: Add support for listing only json events Message-ID: <20161017135756.GO3078@tassilo.jf.intel.com> References: <1476375700-8896-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> <1476375700-8896-5-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> <20161016065339.GA21445@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161016065339.GA21445@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > What we do know about the CPU vendor event names is that they are vendor specific, > and that's a pretty stable property. So my suggestion would be to simply make it: > > perf list vendor > > with perhaps add aliases as well: > > perf list model > perf list cpu-model > > ... and 'perf list hardware' should probably also list all the vendor specific > hardware events as well. Sure can change it. > > Could we please work a bit more on making vendor specific hardware event handling > more usable to people who don't care about internals? Do you prefer fully new patches, or are incremential patches ok? -Andi