From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: acme@infradead.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, jolsa@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
rob@landley.net
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] perf: Expand definition of sysfs format attribute
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:24:22 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130408072422.GA4476@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362370865-4437-1-git-send-email-michael@ellerman.id.au>
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:21:05PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Make it explicit that the format attributes may define overlapping bit
> ranges. Unfortunately this was left unspecified originally, and all the
> examples show non-overlapping ranges. I don't believe this is an ABI
> change, as we are defining something that was previously undefined, but
> others may disagree.
>
> The POWER8 PMU would like to define overlapping ranges, as bit ranges in
> the event code have different meanings for certain events. It will also
> allow us to define an overarching "event" field, that encompasses all
> others.
>
> As far as I can see perf is comfortable with this change, however I am
> not sure if there are any other users of the interface.
Any comments on this one?
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-08 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-04 4:21 [RFC/PATCH] perf: Expand definition of sysfs format attribute Michael Ellerman
2013-04-08 7:24 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2013-05-06 1:08 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-05-06 8:20 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-05-06 11:36 ` Jiri Olsa
2013-04-08 9:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-08 11:57 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-04-08 15:51 ` Jiri Olsa
2013-05-10 15:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
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