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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 10:08:05 -0800
From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] perf/core: exposing type of context-switch-out event
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 06:40:04PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch prototypes exposing the type of context-switch-out event using
> PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXT_RESERVED bit for PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE] records.

It would be better to define an actually named bit in perf_event.h.
It can be the same value.

Also we would need a patch for perf script / perf report -D to print this
information.

The rest looks good to me.

-Andi