On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 12:51:42PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: SNIP
> > krava alias: "tsc=1,noretcomp=0" > > > -e intel_pt/krava/ > > > which gives the same result > > So you propose that we start maintaining some table of aliases that > would be installed by default, etc? "krava" would not be a good name, I > think (:-)), so in this case we would have something like: > > defaults_intel_pt: "tsc=1,noretcomp=0" > > -e intel_pt/defaults_intel_pt/ > > Which of course gets redundant/long, so, using what Adrian suggests, we > would instead not pass anything between the slashes, and that would mean > "default_" concatenated with the name of the PMU used, so it would > become: > > -e intel_pt// > > that would be equivalent to: > > -e intel_pt/defaults_intel_pt/ > > and also to: > > -e intel_pt/tsc=1,noretcomp=0/ > > ? > > I have not looked at the implementation, this is all just from the > information I skimmed in this thread. well I meant that we already have following directory: /sys/devices/cpu/events for aliases.. files with format definitions (even partial) I can imagine 'default' file there doing the same job for the default format set but I just could be missing something which is not apparent from changelog ;-) jirka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
