linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] coresight: Use event attributes for sink selection

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Message-ID: <6fa9c1f9-2952-f758-851d-4fe4335d561b@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:58:50 +0000
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
To:     mathieu.poirier@...aro.org, acme@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
        heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, will.deacon@....com,
        mark.rutland@....com, jolsa@...hat.com, namhyung@...nel.org,
        adrian.hunter@...el.com, ast@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] coresight: Use event attributes for sink selection



On 31/01/2019 18:47, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> This patch uses the information conveyed by perf_event::attr::config2
> to select a sink to use for the session.  That way a sink can easily be
> selected to be used by more than one source, something that isn't currently
> possible with the sysfs implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>