From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753521Ab1HHL7o (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2011 07:59:44 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:52091 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752069Ab1HHL7m convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2011 07:59:42 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf: Add memory load/store events generic code From: Peter Zijlstra To: Anton Blanchard Cc: Paul Mackerras , Lin Ming , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Stephane Eranian , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , linux-kernel Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:59:20 +0200 References: <1309766525-14089-1-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com> <1309766525-14089-2-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com> <1309768420.3282.8.camel@twins> <1309769066.3282.14.camel@twins> <1309867418.3282.73.camel@twins> <20110705230217.GA9584@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1309960718.3282.289.camel@twins> <20110708171836.6465a12e@kryten> <1310138308.3282.708.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2- Message-ID: <1312804760.10488.22.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 13:57 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Anton, Paul, any word on this? I'd love to see the specs for that > power-pmu event vector thing.. It would be a terrible shame if we now > include an abstraction that somewhat matches your needs but not quite, > requiring us to either introduce another abi component later or. not context switch and get confused about the email you were writing... :-) I think I wanted to say something about trying to version the ABI, which is pretty much the same anyway, a royal pain in the butt ;-)