From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755098Ab3BZF0x (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:26:53 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:52738 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751117Ab3BZF0t (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:26:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:26:46 +1100 From: Michael Ellerman To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Paul Mackerras , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , robert.richter@amd.com, Anton Blanchard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephane Eranian , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6][v4]: perf: Create a sysfs entry for Power event format Message-ID: <20130226052646.GB21553@concordia> References: <20130123062201.GA13720@us.ibm.com> <20130123062613.GF13720@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130123062613.GF13720@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:26:13PM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > > [PATCH 5/6][v4]: perf: Create a sysfs entry for Power event format > > Create a sysfs entry, '/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/event' > which describes the format of a POWER cpu. Did this patch go upstream? I don't see it. If not, please don't merge it. > The format of the event is the same for all POWER cpus at least in > (Power6, Power7), so bulk of this change is common in the code common > to POWER cpus. No. The event format is different on most POWER cpus, in particular it is different on Power6 and Power7, and will be different again on Power8. cheers