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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: add /proc/perf_events file for dump perf events
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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:27:57 +0200
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On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 16:23 +0800, Jovi Zhang wrote:
> This new /proc/perf_events file is used for real time dump all
> perf events info in whole system wide machine, this patch also add
> a new field perf_entry in struct perf_event, for connect to
> global list perf_events_list. 

This fails to mention why you'd want something like that.