linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf: sysfs type id

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Date:	Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:08:07 +0100
From:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	"robert.richter" <robert.richter@....com>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	fweisbec <fweisbec@...il.com>, paulus <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf: sysfs type id

Peter,

How do you envision users specifying event_source + event name
on the command line of the perf tool (or others)?

Would that be by passing the full filename to the tool?



On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 15:10 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 14:01 +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> > Peter,
>>
>> > > 6
>> >
>> > And then, what do you do with 6?
>> > I assume you have to pass it in the attr struct.
>>
>> perf_event_attr::type, as said in the initial changelog.
>>
>> > How do you plan on doing this while keeping what is already there?
>>
>> +       if (type < 0) {
>> +               err = idr_get_new_above(&pmu_idr, pmu, PERF_TYPE_MAX, &type);
>>
>> and
>>
>> +       rcu_read_lock();
>> +       pmu = idr_find(&pmu_idr, event->attr.type);
>> +       rcu_read_unlock();
>> +       if (pmu)
>> +               goto unlock;
>>
>>
>> So we start dynamic IDs at the top of the static range, and only do
>> dynamic IDs for those that don't already have a static number.
>
> Also note that I picked:
>
> +       perf_pmu_register(&pmu, "cpu", PERF_TYPE_RAW);
>
> as the CPU type, since we can easily provide the raw values in any
> listed events, eg.
>
> # cat /sys/.../cpu/events/cycles
> 0x003c
>
>
>
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