From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: acme@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org,
cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
eranian@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] perf, tool: Add support to specify hw event as pmu event term
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:13:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1341404019.2507.107.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120704120001.GC960@krava.redhat.com>
On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 14:00 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:39:20PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 00:00 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > >
> > > It's possible to use sysfs attribute name as 'event' term value,
> > > or any possible alias for hw event, e.g.:
> > > cycles OR cpu-cycles
> > > branch_misses OR branch-misses
> > > bus_cycles OR bus-cycles
> > > cache_misses OR cache-misses
> > > cache_references OR cache-references
> > > ref_cycles OR ref-cycles
> > > stalled_cycles_backend OR stalled-cycles-backend
> > > stalled_cycles_frontend OR stalled-cycles-frontend
> >
> > Do we really want to do that?
>
> well, the aliasing works on sysfs filename base.. so when you specify
> event=str
>
> 'str' file is looked up in 'events' dir.
Right..
> We use '_' in file names and '-' in event symbol names. I thought it might be
> confusing allowing just '_' so I added also the '-' version.
>
> I could keep just the '-' version.. with some more work on kernel ATTR
> function names ;) but it seems like common sysfs practise to use '_'.
We could map '-' to '_', but I'm not sure about the aliases in general.
I mean if the sysfs event name is 'cycles' also allowing 'cpu_cycles' is
somewhat confusing and arbitrary.
I think it would be best to stick to discoverable names only. Anybody?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-04 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-03 22:00 [RFCv2 0/10] perf, tool: Allow to use hw events in PMU syntax Jiri Olsa
2012-07-03 22:00 ` [PATCH 01/10] perf, tool: Add empty rule for new line in event syntax parsing Jiri Olsa
2012-07-06 11:23 ` [tip:perf/core] perf tools: " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-07-03 22:00 ` [PATCH 02/10] perf, tool: Fix pmu object initialization Jiri Olsa
2012-07-04 10:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-04 11:40 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-07-04 11:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-05 14:28 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-07-03 22:00 ` [PATCH 03/10] perf, tool: Properly free format data Jiri Olsa
2012-07-03 22:00 ` [PATCH 04/10] perf, x86: Making hardware events translations available in sysfs Jiri Olsa
2012-07-04 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-04 10:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-04 12:01 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-07-04 12:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-04 16:35 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-07-04 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-04 10:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-04 10:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-04 12:00 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-07-03 22:00 ` [PATCH 05/10] perf, tool: Split out PE_VALUE_SYM parsing token to SW and HW tokens Jiri Olsa
2012-07-06 11:24 ` [tip:perf/core] perf tools: " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-07-03 22:00 ` [PATCH 06/10] perf, tool: Split event symbols arrays to hw and sw parts Jiri Olsa
2012-07-06 11:25 ` [tip:perf/core] perf tools: " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-07-03 22:00 ` [PATCH 07/10] perf, tool: Add support to specify hw event as pmu event term Jiri Olsa
2012-07-04 10:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-04 12:00 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-07-04 12:13 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-07-06 1:08 ` Stephane Eranian
2012-07-09 13:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-03 22:00 ` [PATCH 08/10] perf, tool: Add sysfs read file interface Jiri Olsa
2012-07-04 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-03 22:00 ` [PATCH 09/10] perf, test: Use ARRAY_SIZE in parse events tests Jiri Olsa
2012-07-06 11:22 ` [tip:perf/core] perf " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-07-03 22:00 ` [PATCH 10/10] perf, test: Add automated tests for pmu sysfs translated events Jiri Olsa
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