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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf tools: Make Power7 events available for perf
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:14:34AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:24:34PM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> >
> > So something like they have on ARM?
> >
> > vince@pandaboard:/sys/bus/event_source/devices$ ls -l
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 8 21:57 ARMv7 Cortex-A9 -> ../../../devices/ARMv7 Cortex-A9
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 8 21:57 breakpoint -> ../../../devices/breakpoint
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 8 21:57 software -> ../../../devices/software
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 8 21:57 tracepoint -> ../../../devices/tracepoint
>
> Right so what I remember of the ARM case is that their /proc/cpuinfo isn't
> sufficient to identify their PMU. And they don't have a cpuid like instruction
> at all.
>
> > > For the cpu you can obviously just detect what processor you're on with
> > > cpuid or whatever, but it's a bit of a hack. And that really doesn't
> > > work for non-cpu PMUs.
> >
> > why is it a hack to use cpuid?
>
> I agree, for x86 cpuid is perfectly fine, as would /proc/cpuinfo be, I suspect
> that just the model number is sufficient in most cases, even for uncore stuff.

What about things on PCI? Other strange buses?

As long as everything's in /sys then it should be _possible_ for
userspace to work out what's what, but it's going to end up with a bunch
of detection logic and heuristics in the library.

At which point you've just rewritten libpfm4.

cheers


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