From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A65CC10DCE for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:59:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25BB222C4 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:59:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727082AbgCJT7Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:59:16 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:58810 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726545AbgCJT7Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:59:16 -0400 X-Amp-Result: UNKNOWN X-Amp-Original-Verdict: FILE UNKNOWN X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga007.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.58]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 10 Mar 2020 12:59:15 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.70,538,1574150400"; d="scan'208";a="231440862" Received: from tassilo.jf.intel.com (HELO tassilo.localdomain) ([10.7.201.21]) by orsmga007.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Mar 2020 12:59:15 -0700 Received: by tassilo.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7AF3C301BCC; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:59:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:59:15 -0700 From: Andi Kleen To: Ian Rogers Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Mark Rutland , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Martin KaFai Lau , Yonghong Song , Andrii Nakryiko , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Igor Lubashev , Alexey Budankov , Florian Fainelli , Adrian Hunter , Jiwei Sun , yuzhoujian , Kan Liang , Jin Yao , Leo Yan , John Garry , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Stephane Eranian Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: add support for lipfm4 Message-ID: <20200310195915.GA1676879@tassilo.jf.intel.com> References: <20200310185003.57344-1-irogers@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200310185003.57344-1-irogers@google.com> Sender: bpf-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: bpf@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:50:03AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote: > This patch links perf with the libpfm4 library. > This library contains all the hardware event tables for all > processors supported by perf_events. This is a helper library > that help convert from a symbolic event name to the event > encoding required by the underlying kernel interface. This > library is open-source and available from: http://perfmon2.sf.net. For most CPUs the builtin perf JSON event support should make this redundant. Perhaps you could list what CPUs it actually supports over the existing JSON tables. If it's only a few it would be likely better to add appropiate json files. If it's a massive number it might be useful, although JSON support would be better for those too. -Andi