From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Namhyung Kim Subject: Re: Referencing perf? Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:43:08 +0900 Message-ID: <87d2fhmbqb.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> References: <536E67D3.2030604@bsc.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from LGEMRELSE6Q.lge.com ([156.147.1.121]:45703 "EHLO lgemrelse6q.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750776AbaENAnK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2014 20:43:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Vince Weaver's message of "Tue, 13 May 2014 10:24:06 -0400 (EDT)") Sender: linux-perf-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Vince Weaver Cc: Harald Servat , linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Hi Harald and Vince, On Tue, 13 May 2014 10:24:06 -0400 (EDT), Vince Weaver wrote: > On Sat, 10 May 2014, Harald Servat wrote: > >> which is the appropriate way to reference perf in a publication? > > That's a good question. > > The original authors are T. Gleixner and I. Molnar, but they've never > published a real document about it. You could try citing the > tools/perf/design.txt document that comes with the Linux kernel, > or also the git commit 0793a61d4df8daeac6492dbf8d2f3e5713caae5e > from Thu Dec 4 2008 that introduced perf_event to the world. > > I'm not sure if there is an official way to cite a git commit. Maybe via web page of the commit? https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0793a61d4df8daeac6492dbf8d2f3e5713caae5e Thanks, Namhyung