linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] perf vendor events: Update CascadelakeX events to v1.08

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Date:   Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:43:45 -0700
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        "Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] perf vendor events: Update CascadelakeX events to v1.08

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 11:36 AM Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, it now works, but then... You forgot to add the Cc: entries for
> > all the people in your actual e-mail Cc: list, and also the
> > Reviewed-by: from Andy, I had to do it all manually, so when I applied
> > your attachments with 'git am' I needed to go on and manually collect
> > all the Cc, Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags.
>
> For the event updates we should just use git pulls in my opinion.
>
> They are just too large for the normal review procedures, and usually
> don't really benefit much from community review anyways because they
> are essentially hardware documentation.
>
> Should just name intel / amd / etc. event list maintainers and you
> could accept pulls from them.
>
> -Andi

Are the scripts to make the json available? Perhaps then Arnaldo could
generate the changes.

I believe Kajol Jain has some unmerged changes because there's a worry
about the interaction with the scripts and assumptions in jevents.
Having access to the scripts would mean that we could fix whatever
issues there would be.

Thanks,
Ian