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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] perf: Add interface to add general events to sysfs
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:20:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110725152038.GA23356@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311582723.2617.50.camel@laptop>

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:32:03AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 16:11 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > It's strange that I didn't find a way to check if a directory is present
> > in sysfs. Any hint?
> 
> sysfs is voodoo for me, best I can come up with is, ask the sysfs
> folks ;-)
> 
> Kay, Greg?

What are you trying to do here specifically?

sysfs is not ment to be walked from within the kernel, only from
userspace.  Perhaps that is your problem here?

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-25 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-15 14:34 [PATCH v2 0/6] perf: Intel uncore pmu counting support Lin Ming
2011-07-15 14:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] perf: Add interface to add general events to sysfs Lin Ming
2011-07-18 13:34   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-18 14:00     ` Lin Ming
2011-07-19  7:52     ` Lin Ming
2011-07-25  7:08       ` Lin Ming
2011-07-25  7:57       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-25  8:32         ` Lin Ming
2011-07-25  8:11     ` Lin Ming
2011-07-25  8:32       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-25 15:20         ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-07-26  1:06           ` Lin Ming
2011-07-26  4:42             ` Greg KH
2011-07-26  5:50               ` Lin Ming
2011-07-15 14:34 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] perf, x86: Add Intel Nehalem/Westmere uncore pmu Lin Ming
2011-07-15 14:48   ` Lin Ming
2011-07-18 14:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-18 14:54     ` Lin Ming
2011-07-18 16:11       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-15 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] perf, x86: Add Intel SandyBridge " Lin Ming
2011-07-15 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] perf: Remove perf_event_attr::type check Lin Ming
2011-07-15 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] perf tool: Allow system-wide 'perf stat' without 'command' Lin Ming
2011-07-15 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] perf tool: Parse general/raw events from sysfs Lin Ming
2011-08-06 20:10   ` Stephane Eranian
2011-08-06 23:38     ` Lin Ming
2011-08-07 23:47       ` Stephane Eranian
2011-08-08  1:08         ` Lin Ming
2011-08-08  5:54           ` Stephane Eranian
2011-08-08  8:48           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-08  8:57             ` Lin Ming
2011-08-08  9:03               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-11 22:38           ` Stephane Eranian
2011-08-15 19:18             ` Corey Ashford
2011-08-31 12:21 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] perf: Intel uncore pmu counting support Stephane Eranian

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