linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] oprofile: Allow setting EDGE/INV/CMASK for Intel counter events

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Message-ID: <20110316165634.GA11094@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:56:34 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net" <oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oprofile: Allow setting EDGE/INV/CMASK for Intel counter events

> Shouldn't something like the follwing work (assuming the umask table
> is modified)?
> 
>  opcontrol --event SOME_EVENT:100000:0x00800000 ...

I think there was some problem with this when I tried it.

Besides I'm more interested in using named events for this;
the raw numbers are quite evil. So this needs new user space
in any case.

-Andi
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