On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:13:34PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:38:34AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:03:39PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> > > > > > > [The patch to enable this in the user tools has been sent separately] > > > > > > With the earlier patches to automatically try cpu// and add > > > a precise sys attribute, we can now enable PEBS for the mem-loads, > > > mem-stores events everywhere. > > > > > > This allows to use > > > > > > perf record -e mem-loads ... > > > > > > instead of > > > > > > perf record -e cpu/mem-loads/p ... > > > > > > Always use precise=2 even though it is costly pre-Haswell > > > > This Changelog fails to give a reason _why_ we'd want to do this. > > The first is much nicer to type and understand? Just in the spirit of > making perf easier to use.
And here I was thinking that maybe these events don't make sense without pebs or so. But no, rather than giving an actual useful reason you'd have me look things up myself. *sigh* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
