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SubjectRe: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: kerneltop: update to new ABI
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On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 23:52 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 20:11 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 19:05 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 12:03 +0000, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > > Commit-ID: 373b153677f26a263ef297d77a5e045a31f6486c
> > > > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/373b153677f26a263ef297d77a5e045a31f6486c
> > > > > Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> > > > > AuthorDate: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:12:02 +0200
> > > > > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > > > > CommitDate: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:53:00 +0200
> > > > >
> > > > > perf_counter: kerneltop: update to new ABI
> > > > >
> > > > > Update to reflect the new record_type ABI changes.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > perfstat is still having many issues:
> > > >
> > > > 1. 0:6: bus-cycles is not valid for AMD, so it fails
> > > >
> > > > 2. ./perfstat -e 0:1,0:2,0:3,0:4,0:5,0:6 ls
> > > > can be replaced by ./perfstat -e 0:* ls
> > > >
> > > > 3. Similarly ./perfstat -e 1:1,1:2,1:3,1:4,1:5,1:6 ls
> > > > can be replaced by ./perfstat -e 1:* ls
> > > >
> > > > 4. All events can be replaced by ./perfstat -e * ls
> > > >
> > >
> > > 5. This command is invalid:
> > > Sample output:
> > >
> > > $ ./perfstat -e 1 -e 3 -e 5 ls -lR /usr/include/ >/dev/null
> >
> > yes, this should be fixed in perfstat: '-e 1' should be accepted as
> > '-e 0:1'. Patches welcome.
> >
>

Better I will show in pictorial way to avoid any confusion:

> if you treat '-e 1' as 'e 0:1' then how you will treat '-e 1:1' ?
>

'-e 1' ---> '-e 0:1'

? ---> '-e 1:1'

> I think 'e 1:*' is better option to select all software events and '-e
> 0:*' for all hardware events.
>

'-e 0:*' ---> select all hardware events.
'-e 1:*' ---> select all software events.

> Or '-e 1' will treat as both '-e 0:1,1:1'
>

'-e 1' ---> '-e 0:1,1:0'

--
JSR



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