Re: [PATCH] perf-record: Create events initially disabled -- again

David Ahern
2012-05-15T01:54:49Z

On 5/14/12 7:46 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> And we need to have all this logic in a central place, the "open" method
> of perf_evlist :-)
>
> The perf_target abstraction is the way to get there, but in the process
> I think we really need to have each new method with a 'perf test' entry
> and in addition to that an 'autotest'* entry to test the perf builtins.
>
> - Arnaldo
>
> * http://autotest.github.com/

Yes, I've seen the project and know that kvm leverages the framework. My
knowledge ends there - never had a reason to try it out. With the vPMU
in v3.3 we could use KVM to automate a fair bit of the testing.

David