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From: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>,
	"robert.richter" <robert.richter@amd.com>,
	fweisbec <fweisbec@gmail.com>, paulus <paulus@samba.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf: sysfs type id
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:39:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE44B82.3010606@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290024072.2109.1247.camel@laptop>

On 11/17/2010 12:01 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 20:57 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> How about a compromise position: all of the arch-specific events are
>>> exposed to user space via sysfs iff some CONFIG_* variable to set to
>>> true.  Something like CONFIG_EXPOSE_ALL_HW_PERF_EVENTS_IN_SYSFS.
>>> This way you would only use all that memory when it's explicitly
>>> configured in.
>
> Another thing you could do is make all PMU drivers loadable modules
> (most of the infrastructure for that is present) and make the exhaustive
> list either a module parameter or another module extending the PMU
> driver.
>

That's an interesting approach.  Maybe there could be a perf command 
that would load the appropriate modules for all of the PMUs in the 
system - "perf load-event-modules".

- Corey


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-09 21:45 [RFC][PATCH] perf: sysfs type id Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-09 22:11 ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-09 22:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-09 22:40     ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-09 22:13 ` Greg KH
2010-11-09 23:36   ` Michael Ellerman
     [not found]     ` <AANLkTi=UftgQn0ydRd2wszqFtpRrkEcW7dzfapKKix_V@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <1289350360.22787.9.camel@concordia>
     [not found]         ` <AANLkTikGHNkUN6t9rPhdE6XOQiqb5xAzH_9eY6L9h2H2@mail.gmail.com>
2010-11-10  1:10           ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-10  1:19             ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-10  1:45               ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-10  1:59                 ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-10  3:37                   ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-10  2:11                 ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-10 17:31     ` Greg KH
2010-11-10 12:27   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-10 13:36     ` sysfs: Add an 'events' class. (was: Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf: sysfs type id) Ingo Molnar
2010-11-10 14:14       ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-10 15:00         ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-11  6:39           ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-10 13:01 ` [RFC][PATCH] perf: sysfs type id Stephane Eranian
2010-11-10 14:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-10 14:19     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-10 20:08       ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-10 20:32         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-10 20:53           ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-10 21:05             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-17  2:35               ` Corey Ashford
2010-11-17  7:02                 ` Kyle Moffett
2010-11-17 11:30                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-17 11:25                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-17 19:47                   ` Corey Ashford
2010-11-17 19:57                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-17 20:01                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-17 21:39                         ` Corey Ashford [this message]
2010-11-10 14:24     ` Stephane Eranian

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