linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] perf/core: exposing type of context-switch-out event

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Message-ID: <20180301193659.GJ21543@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Mar 2018 11:36:59 -0800
From:   Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@...b.com>
Cc:     Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dmitri Prokhorov <Dmitry.Prohorov@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] perf/core: exposing type of context-switch-out event

> Please also add documentation Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt, but I 
> just noticed that not even PERF_RECORD_SWITCH is documented there...

That file only covers fields not generated by the kernel, but this
is coming from the kernel.

Kernel records are documented in the manpage, but Vince usually updates
that on his own.

-Andi