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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	jolsa@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf, tools: Add probing for xed
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 20:48:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170103194822.GC8826@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170103183946.GK27864@kernel.org>

On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 03:39:46PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 07:11:06AM -0800, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> > > please don't put it in FEATURE_DISPLAY.. AFAICS there's not any xed
> > > package yet, just the sources, so the "xed: OFF" build message would
> > > bother almost everyone probably for long time..
> > 
> > It should be eventually packaged. How would people know they are missing
> > it without displaying it? I think it has to, otherwise most people will
> > miss out on the feature. Silent failure is bad.

make VF=1 will show it

> Right, you have a point, we should have some warning to the user for
> when features are not being automatically probed for, i.e. extra
> features may be enabled using special command line settings, read the
> docs to see how.

we could print out one line saying we did not detect all the features

jirka

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-03 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-03  9:00 New attempt at adding an disassembler to perf Andi Kleen
2017-01-03  9:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] perf, tools: Add probing for xed Andi Kleen
2017-01-03 14:58   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-01-03 15:10     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-01-03 15:11     ` Andi Kleen
2017-01-03 18:39       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-01-03 19:48         ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2017-01-08 14:19   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-01-08 14:20   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-01-10  0:56     ` Andi Kleen
2017-01-03  9:00 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf, tools: Add disassembler for x86 using the XED library Andi Kleen
2017-01-08 14:20   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-01-03  9:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf, tools, script: Add support for printing assembler Andi Kleen
2017-01-03  9:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf, tools, script: Add brstackasm output for branch stacks Andi Kleen
2017-01-08 14:19   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-01-09 19:14     ` Andi Kleen
2017-01-08 14:20   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-01-08 14:21 ` New attempt at adding an disassembler to perf Jiri Olsa

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