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From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event description in sysfs
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:16:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263978999.4283.823.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263978706-15499-1-git-send-email-t.fujak@samsung.com>

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 10:11 +0100, Tomasz Fujak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While I managed to build and run the early version (back from
> December), I was unable to find the newest sources (infra + ARMv6,
> ARMv7 support).
> Where do I find them?
> 
> The following patches provide a sysfs entry with hardware event human
> readable description in the form of "0x%llx\t%lld-%lld\t%s\t%s" %
> (event_value, minval, maxval, name, description) and means to populate
> the file.
> The version posted contains ARMv6, ARMv7 (Cortex-A[89]) support in
> this matter.
> 
> The intended use is twofold: for users to read the list directly and
> for tools (like perf).
> 
> This series includes:
> [PATCH v1 1/2] perfevent: Add performance event structure definition
> and 'extevents' sysfs entry
> [PATCH v1 2/2] [ARM] perfevent: Event description list for ARMv6,
> Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 exported

Why do this in kernel space? Listing available events seems like
something we can do from userspace just fine.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-20  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-20  9:11 [PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event description in sysfs Tomasz Fujak
2010-01-20  9:11 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] perfevent: Add performance event structure definition and 'extevents' sysfs entry Tomasz Fujak
2010-01-20  9:11 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] [ARM] perfevent: Event description list for ARMv6, Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 exported Tomasz Fujak
2010-01-20  9:16 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-01-20  9:46   ` [PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event description in sysfs Tomasz Fujak
2010-01-20  9:57   ` Michał Nazarewicz
2010-01-20 13:31     ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-20 13:39       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-20 13:55         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-20 14:01           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-20 14:09             ` Michał Nazarewicz
2010-01-20 14:16               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-20 14:26                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-20 14:45                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-20 14:54                 ` Michał Nazarewicz
2010-01-20 14:41             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-20 15:03               ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-20 15:42                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-20 16:18                   ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-20 16:26               ` Jamie Lokier
2010-01-20 16:35                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-20  9:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-20 10:21   ` Tomasz Fujak

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