linux-kernel - Re: perf: Add support for full Intel event lists v3

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Message-ID: <CAPh34me=yxjs2LR+_eiTyrQKFzDDtr95i_3+HDwHPPxYfZDLqw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 May 2014 18:09:20 +0200
From:	Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	acme@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, eranian@...gle.com, namhyung@...nel.org,
	jolsa@...hat.com
Subject: Re: perf: Add support for full Intel event lists v3

On 13 May 2014 00:51, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> I implemented an automatic downloader to get the event file for the
> current CPU.  The events are stored in ~/.events.
> Then perf adds a parser that converts the JSON format into perf event
> aliases, which then can be used directly as any other perf event.

Should the name of the file not more specific? I mean .events can mean
everything? Every program may have a demand for this generic name. Why
not ~/.perf-events? Even more standard [1]:
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/perf/events (i.e. ~/.cache/perf/events)

[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
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