linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Enabled PEBS event to be exported in a raw format

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Message-ID: <1340900942.28750.74.camel@twins>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:29:02 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc:	Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Enabled PEBS event to be exported in a raw
 format

On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 18:27 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> 
> My problem with the script approach is that you may end up
> re-inventing a lot of the infrastructure
> already in perf in terms of histograming and sorting. I think scripts
> are good for dumping
> the raw data or very simply analysis. Now I recognize that they are
> handy to implement
> mahcine specific decoding of the samples. 

Yeah, I'm no fan of all that script nonsense either. If its worth doing
its worth doing properly.
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