linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf: Add a few generic stalled-cycles events

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Message-ID: <1351668137.4047.38.camel@twins>
Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:22:17 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>, acme@...hat.com,
	mingo@...nel.org, eranian@...gle.com, asharma@...com,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@....ibm.com>, paulus@...ba.org,
	mpjohn@...ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf: Add a few generic stalled-cycles events

On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 23:40 -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> So instead of the names I came up with in this patch, stalled-cycles-fixed-point
> we could use the name used in the CPU spec - 'cmplu_stall_fxu' in the arch
> specific code ? 

You could, but I would advise against it. Human readable names are so
much more accessible.
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