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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf: Add a few generic stalled-cycles events
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On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 23:40 -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> So instead of the names I came up with in this patch, stalled-cycles-fixe=
d-point
> we could use the name used in the CPU spec - 'cmplu_stall_fxu' in the arc=
h
> specific code ?=20

You could, but I would advise against it. Human readable names are so
much more accessible.