From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753500AbbJSKnS (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:43:18 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:38706 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752623AbbJSKnR (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:43:17 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.17,701,1437462000"; d="scan'208";a="829903208" Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 27/30] perf build: adding X86 auxiliary specific flags To: Mathieu Poirier , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, acme@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net, nicolas.pitre@linaro.org References: <1445192687-24112-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> <1445192687-24112-28-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: zhang.chunyan@linaro.org, mike.leach@arm.com, tor@ti.com, al.grant@arm.com, pawel.moll@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Adrian Hunter Organization: Intel Finland Oy, Registered Address: PL 281, 00181 Helsinki, Business Identity Code: 0357606 - 4, Domiciled in Helsinki Message-ID: <5624C88E.7060200@intel.com> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 13:40:14 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1445192687-24112-28-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 18/10/15 21:24, Mathieu Poirier wrote: > Adding an X86 specific flag to split AUX components that are > generic and specific to architectures. That way the auxiliary > area mechanic can be compiled in for other architecture without > including X86 specific code. The idea is that you *should* be able to take a perf.data file from one architecture and process it on another architecture.