linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/27] perf list: Add support for listing only json events

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Message-ID: <20161017135756.GO3078@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 06:57:56 -0700
From:   Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linux Weekly News <lwn@....net>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/27] perf list: Add support for listing only json events

> What we do know about the CPU vendor event names is that they are vendor specific, 
> and that's a pretty stable property. So my suggestion would be to simply make it:
> 
> 	perf list vendor
> 
> with perhaps add aliases as well:
> 
> 	perf list model
> 	perf list cpu-model
> 
> ... and 'perf list hardware' should probably also list all the vendor specific 
> hardware events as well.

Sure can change it.

> 
> Could we please work a bit more on making vendor specific hardware event handling 
> more usable to people who don't care about internals?

Do you prefer fully new patches, or are incremential patches ok? 

-Andi