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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/4] perf: Add hardware breakpoint address mask
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:17:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5179652F.8080507@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130425170635.GA1324@redhat.com>

On 04/25/2013 10:06 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>
>> The downside is that in userland perf tool we need differing documentation
>> on what the mask syntax means for each architecture.
> 
> Personally I think this is acceptable.
> 
> But I am new to this code, so...
> 

That would seem really, really awkward.  Yes, perf has a bunch of
low-level stuff, but it would seem highly undesirable to force the user
to deal with something like that.

It would be good to have a user-friendly syntax that covers most of what
users may want to do and perhaps a longer form that can express
everything including ARM's byte selects; if the system can't honor the
request it should return an error.

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-25 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-23  7:57 [PATCH V2 0/4] perf: Add support for hardware breakpoint address masks Jacob Shin
2013-04-23  7:57 ` [PATCH V2 1/4] perf: Add hardware breakpoint address mask Jacob Shin
2013-04-23  9:54   ` Will Deacon
2013-04-23 14:34     ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-23 14:40       ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-23 15:02         ` Will Deacon
2013-04-23 15:18           ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-24  9:48             ` Will Deacon
2013-04-24 16:30               ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-25 17:06                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-25 17:17                   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-04-25 23:19                     ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-26 16:20                       ` Will Deacon
2013-04-26 16:31                         ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-26 16:47                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-23 13:18   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-23 14:25     ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-24 23:08       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-04-25 15:10         ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-25 15:57           ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-25 16:59           ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-25 17:33             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-23  7:57 ` [PATCH V2 2/4] perf/x86/amd: AMD implementation for " Jacob Shin
2013-04-23 13:22   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-23  7:57 ` [PATCH V2 3/4] perf tools: Add hardware breakpoint address mask event parser Jacob Shin
2013-04-23  7:57 ` [PATCH V2 4/4] perf tools: Add hardware breakpoint address mask test cases Jacob Shin

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