linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 0/5] perf: Driver specific configuration for PMU

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Date:   Sun, 28 Aug 2016 16:18:08 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, jolsa@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 0/5] perf: Driver specific configuration for PMU

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 02:20:40PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:

SNIP

> perf record -e some_event/@...1,@cfg2=config/ ...
> 
> The above are all valid configuration and will see the strings 'cfg1'
> and 'cfg2=config' sent to the PMU driver for parsing and interpretation
> using the existing ioctl() mechanism.
> 
> The primary customers for this feature are the CoreSight drivers where
> the selection of a sink (where trace data is accumulated) needs to be
> done in a previous, and separated step, from the launching of the perf
> command.
> 
> As such something that used to be a two-step process:
> 
> # echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20070000.etr/enable_sink
> # perf record -e cs_etm//u --per-thread  uname
> 
> is integrated in a single command:
> 
> # perf record -e cs_etm/@...70000.etr/u --per-thread  uname
> 
> Thanks,
> Mathieu
> 
> Changes for V6:
> - Using sysFS rather than an ioctl() to communicate command line
>   parameters to the CoreSight PMU.

apart from few nits it looks good.. but can't say for patch 2/5 ;-)

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>

thanks,
jirka