Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:16:43 -0700 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 'perf upgrade' (was: Re: [PATCH v9 00/11] Add support for JSON event files.) |
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:55:41AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > This is another attempt to resurrect Andi Kleen's patchset so users > > can specify perf events by their event names rather than raw codes. > > > > This is a rebase of Andi Kleen's patchset from Jul 30, 2014[1] to 4.0. > > (I fixed minor and not so minor conflicts). > > So this series shows some progress, but instead of this limited > checkout ability I'd still prefer it if 'perf download' downloaded the > latest perf code itself and built it - it shouldn't be limited to just > a small subset of the perf source code!
I'm not against that idea (and can see it being useful in some cases[1]), but this would need some authentication.
Otherwise it would be a "$bigbrother/nsa/anyone controling your network can run everything on your computer" style hole.
The original JSON files don't have this problem because they didn't contain any code.
-Andi
[1] especially to work around the broken perf setup on d./u. distros.
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