linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH -v2 0/4] Persistent events

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Message-ID: <1345556475.5069.3.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:41:15 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -v2 0/4] Persistent events

On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 15:11 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:30:50PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Good progress there, there's still a few things though:
> > 
> >  - the point also raised by Steven, I'm pretty sure that the placing of
> >    the debugfs files unfortunate. I would much rather see something
> >    like /debug/perf/persistent/$foo, also dropping your
> >    perf_event_desc::dir_name.
> 
> Ok, how do we want to do the per-CPU layout there? Like this:
> 
> /debug/perf/persistent/mce_record0
> /debug/perf/persistent/mce_record1
> ...
> 
> or rather
> 
> /debug/perf/persistent/cpu0/mce_record
> /debug/perf/persistent/cpu1/mce_record
> 
> ?

Definitely the second one. The first one is just ugly. The second is
more in line to the tracing directories too:

/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu0/...

-- Steve


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