[PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event description in sysfs

Tomasz Fujak
2010-01-20T10:21:51Z

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event
> description in sysfs
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:11:44AM +0100, Tomasz Fujak wrote:
> > 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)
>
> I think your patch is in violation of this from
> Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt:
>
> Attributes
> ~~~~~~~~~
> ...
> Attributes should be ASCII text files, preferably with only one value
> per file. It is noted that it may not be efficient to contain only one
> value per file, so it is socially acceptable to express an array of
> values of the same type.
>
> Mixing types, expressing multiple lines of data, and doing fancy
> formatting of data is heavily frowned upon. Doing these things may get
> you publically humiliated and your code rewritten without notice.

1. There are numerous exceptions:
$ find /sys -exec grep -HC ^ {} \; 2>/dev/null | grep ":[3-9]$" | grep -c
yielded 43 on my machine.
Some of them list multiple lines with fancy formatting each (i.e.:
/sys/class/Bluetooth/l2cap or devices/pci*/resource)

2. There are sysfs entries regarding the performance counters already:
'overcommit' and 'reserve_percpu'
They are simple, I admit, but I find it useful to have all relevant thing in
one place.

If the above does not convince you, I could move the file to the debugfs.

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