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From: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
To: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
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	Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	"eranian@gmail.com" <eranian@gmail.com>,
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	"arjan@linux.intel.com" <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>, Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v1 02/15] perf: export generic hardware events via sysfs
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:27:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100727082749.GK26154@erda.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280197103.24607.61.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>

On 26.07.10 22:18:23, Lin Ming wrote:

> > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/events
> > > |-- L1-dcache-load-misses
> > > |   |-- config
> > > |   `-- type

vs.

> >  |-- L1-dcache-load-misses  ===> event name
> >  |   `-- id                 ===> event id

> > This is very simple and flexible and solves the original problem too.
> 
> Yeah, this is flexible. I'll think about this closely.

The thing is, if you start introducing the config/type i/f, we will
stick with it for a long time. I want to avoid this from the
beginning.

Using an id only would work with your current implementation too, you
only need to maintain an id -> config/type mapping, maybe in some
private data section, without exporting it to userspace.

-Robert

-- 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Operating System Research Center


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-27  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-22 11:12 [RFC][PATCH v1 02/15] perf: export generic hardware events via sysfs Lin Ming
2010-07-23 10:44 ` Robert Richter
2010-07-27  2:18   ` Lin Ming
2010-07-27  8:27     ` Robert Richter [this message]
2010-07-27 17:51       ` Corey Ashford
2010-07-28 10:02         ` Robert Richter
2010-07-29  3:29   ` Lin Ming

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