From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760354AbbBIKC6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2015 05:02:58 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:48637 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755596AbbBIKC5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2015 05:02:57 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:02:42 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Tom Huynh Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, mingo@redhat.com, acme@kernel.org, Kim.Phillips@freescale.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jolsa@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf/e6500: Make event translations available in sysfs Message-ID: <20150209100242.GM23123@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1423262636-12053-1-git-send-email-tom.huynh@freescale.com> <1423262636-12053-2-git-send-email-tom.huynh@freescale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1423262636-12053-2-git-send-email-tom.huynh@freescale.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 04:43:54PM -0600, Tom Huynh wrote: > arch/powerpc/perf/e6500-events-list.h | 289 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ That's a lot of events to stuff in the kernel, would a userspace list not be more convenient? ISTR there being various discussions on providing support for that in tools/perf, Jiri?