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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] perf: Attaching an event to a specific PMU
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:04:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1309716271.3282.6.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110703150430.GV4590@erda.amd.com>

On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 17:04 +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> 
> this is a prototype implementation for attaching an event to a
> specific PMU. If there is a general acceptance for this approach I
> will create patches for upstream integration and base my current IBS
> patches on it. 

But there's already an infrastructure to do this, simply stick the
contents of /sys/bus/event_source/devices/*/type in
perf_event_attr::type and you're done.

I don't see the need for /dev crap.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-03 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-03 15:04 [RFC] [PATCH] perf: Attaching an event to a specific PMU Robert Richter
2011-07-03 18:04 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-07-04 17:59   ` Robert Richter
2011-07-05  8:51     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-05  9:12       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-06 16:53         ` Robert Richter
2011-07-06 17:10           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-06 17:14             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-06 17:15               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-07 10:22             ` Robert Richter
2011-07-06 17:12           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-07  9:21             ` Robert Richter
2011-07-07  9:39               ` Robert Richter
2011-07-07 19:38               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-05  9:47     ` [PATCH] perf: Extend attr check to allow also dynamically generated Robert Richter
2011-07-05 10:51       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-05 10:56         ` Robert Richter
2011-07-05 10:53     ` [PATCH] perf: Extend attr check to allow also dynamically generated types Robert Richter

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