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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>,
	peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, mpetlan@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, jolsa@redhat.com,
	namhyung@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Use more flexible pattern matching for CPU identification for mapfile.csv
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:45:46 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171205134546.GB28405@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a494349-2c85-bd09-73c3-fc5ed733d2ef@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Em Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 09:25:56AM +0530, Ravi Bangoria escreveu:
> 
> On 12/04/2017 08:27 PM, William Cohen wrote:
> > The powerpc cpuid information includes chip revision information.
> > Changes between chip revisions are usually minor bug fixes and usually
> > do not affect the operation of the performance monitoring hardware.
> > The original mapfile.csv matching requires enumerating every possible
> > cpuid string.  When a new minor chip revision is produced a new entry
> > has to be added to the mapfile.csv and the code recompiled to allow
> > perf to have the implementation specific perf events for this new
> > minor revision.  For users of various distibutions of Linux having to
> > wait for a new release of the kernel's perf tool to be built with
> > these trivial patches is inconvenient.
> >
> 
> Tested-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks, added to the commit.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-05 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-04 14:57 [PATCH v4] Use more flexible pattern matching for CPU identification for mapfile.csv William Cohen
2017-12-05  3:55 ` Ravi Bangoria
2017-12-05 13:45   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2017-12-06 16:43 ` [tip:perf/core] perf vendor events: " tip-bot for William Cohen

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