Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] perf: add active_entry list head to struct perf_event

2013-10-28 Thread Stephane Eranian
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:57:37PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:58:02PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: >> > > This patch adds a new fields to the struct

Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] perf: add active_entry list head to struct perf_event

2013-10-26 Thread Jiri Olsa
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:57:37PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:58:02PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > This patch adds a new fields to the struct perf_event. > > > It is intended to be used to chain even

Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] perf: add active_entry list head to struct perf_event

2013-10-26 Thread Stephane Eranian
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:58:02PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > This patch adds a new fields to the struct perf_event. > > It is intended to be used to chain events which are > > active (enabled). It helps in the hardware layer > > for PM

Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] perf: add active_entry list head to struct perf_event

2013-10-25 Thread Jiri Olsa
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:58:02PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > This patch adds a new fields to the struct perf_event. > It is intended to be used to chain events which are > active (enabled). It helps in the hardware layer > for PMU which do not have actual counter restrictions, i.e., > free r

[PATCH v3 1/4] perf: add active_entry list head to struct perf_event

2013-10-23 Thread Stephane Eranian
This patch adds a new fields to the struct perf_event. It is intended to be used to chain events which are active (enabled). It helps in the hardware layer for PMU which do not have actual counter restrictions, i.e., free running read-only counters. Active events are chained as opposed to being tra