From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933591AbbDQPcx (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:32:53 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:48664 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754631AbbDQPct (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:32:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:31:26 +0200 From: Jiri Olsa To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Ingo Molnar , Michael Ellerman , mingo@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , peterz@infradead.org, namhyung@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: 'perf upgrade' (was: Re: [PATCH v9 00/11] Add support for JSON event files.) Message-ID: <20150417153126.GA17654@krava> References: <1428993665-2133-1-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20150414085541.GA30202@gmail.com> <1429010508.27414.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20150414125822.GA32761@gmail.com> <1429052004.10000.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20150415092557.GA14942@gmail.com> <20150415205042.GA11620@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150415205042.GA11620@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 01:50:42PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: SNIP > | > | - to blindly follow some poorly constructed vendor format with no > | high level structure, that IMHO didn't work very well when OProfile > | was written, and misrepresenting it as 'symbolic event names'. > | > | Take a look at: > | > | https://download.01.org/perfmon/HSW/Haswell_core_V17.json > | > | and weep. > > Evil vendor formats, but to be fair, here is what _we_ have today: > > perf stat -e r10068,r20036,r40060,r40ac sleep 1 hum, you could also use the 'cpu/event=.../' syntax right? It's not symbolic name, just to be fair ;-) jirka From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F6931A0BD7 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 01:32:48 +1000 (AEST) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:31:26 +0200 From: Jiri Olsa To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Subject: Re: 'perf upgrade' (was: Re: [PATCH v9 00/11] Add support for JSON event files.) Message-ID: <20150417153126.GA17654@krava> References: <1428993665-2133-1-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20150414085541.GA30202@gmail.com> <1429010508.27414.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20150414125822.GA32761@gmail.com> <1429052004.10000.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20150415092557.GA14942@gmail.com> <20150415205042.GA11620@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20150415205042.GA11620@us.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , ak@linux.intel.com, Peter Zijlstra , peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Pekka Enberg , Linus Torvalds , mingo@redhat.com, Borislav Petkov , namhyung@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Ingo Molnar List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 01:50:42PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: SNIP > | > | - to blindly follow some poorly constructed vendor format with no > | high level structure, that IMHO didn't work very well when OProfile > | was written, and misrepresenting it as 'symbolic event names'. > | > | Take a look at: > | > | https://download.01.org/perfmon/HSW/Haswell_core_V17.json > | > | and weep. > > Evil vendor formats, but to be fair, here is what _we_ have today: > > perf stat -e r10068,r20036,r40060,r40ac sleep 1 hum, you could also use the 'cpu/event=.../' syntax right? It's not symbolic name, just to be fair ;-) jirka