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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH 1/1] perf: add support for arch-dependent symbolic event names to "perf stat"
(I posted this yesterday, but I think LKML rejected it because there was more
quoted text than my text. So I am reposting with no quoted text).

A couple of follow-up comments on this patch:

This functionality was designed to provide a generalized interface to an
external event name -> attr struct library, such as libpfm4. libpfm4 has an
interface that nearly exactly matches parse_*_event() profiles, so it's quite
easy to write a small wrapper function to call libpfm4's function.

Ingo Molnar discussed adding some visibility to the arch-dependent event names
through some other interface, such as through /sys/devices/pmus perhaps, but
that discussion is a long way (as far as I know) from having something usable
today. So you could think of this external library approach to be a stop-gap
until something better is developed. When/if that new event naming mechanism
becomes available, we can easily remove this external library support from perf.

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Regards,

- Corey

Corey Ashford
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center, Linux Toolchain
Beaverton, OR
cjashfor@us.ibm.com



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