From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750951Ab0CGWwS (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:52:18 -0500 Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:33170 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750832Ab0CGWwR (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:52:17 -0500 Message-ID: <4B942E1E.1070204@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:52:14 -0800 From: Corey Ashford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Fabian Korak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Perf doesn't accept i915:i915_gem_request_wait_begin as an event References: <4B93BF8C020000DD00024397@tula.rz.fh-offenburg.de> <4B93F813.9080707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100307110441.50dca8cd@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20100307110441.50dca8cd@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/07/2010 11:04 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:01:39 -0800 > Corey Ashford wrote: >> >> I find the example given on that web page quite confusing because >> perf currently doesn't have support for arch-dependent events like >> that, except via "raw code" events which use the syntax -e >> r. I wonder if they locally modified perf to handle those >> events, and then forgot that they had made that modification before >> posting up those instructions. > > these are just standard trace points... Ah, I see. Thanks for the correction. - Corey