Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] perf: Enable symbolic event names

2015-05-02 Thread Vineet Gupta
On Friday 01 May 2015 12:35 PM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > Implement ability to specify Power PMU events by their symbolic event > names rather than raw codes. This approach pulls tables of the Power7 > and Power8 PMU events into the perf source tree and uses these tables > to create aliases for

[RFC][PATCH 0/4] perf: Enable symbolic event names

2015-05-01 Thread Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Implement ability to specify Power PMU events by their symbolic event names rather than raw codes. This approach pulls tables of the Power7 and Power8 PMU events into the perf source tree and uses these tables to create aliases for the PMU events. With these aliases users can run: perf sta