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From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat•com>
Cc: peterz@infradead•org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel•org>,
	dev@codyps•com, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] perf Documentation: add event parameters
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:34:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141222193436.GB19784@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141222143943.GB29096@krava.brq.redhat.com>

Jiri Olsa [jolsa@redhat•com] wrote:
| On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:49:26PM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
| > From: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
| > +		In the case of the last example, a value replacing "?" would
| > +		need to be provided by the user selecting the particular event.
| > +		This is referred to as "event parameterization". All
| > +		non-numerical values indicate an event parameter.
| 
| I see.. here's the glitch ;-) I thought we agreed on forcing '?'
| as the value for param events, not 'All non-numerical values'

Yes, it is currently more broad than needed, but it is not really
user input - we are just parsing sysfs entries that developer specified
in the kernel. If necessary, we can tighten that independently ?
| 
| thanks,
| jirka

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-22 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-22  7:49 [PATCH v6 0/4] Add support for parametrized events Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-12-22  7:49 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] tools/perf: support parsing parameterized events Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-12-22 14:37   ` Jiri Olsa
2014-12-22 19:30     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-12-23  9:55       ` Jiri Olsa
2014-12-23 19:58         ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2015-01-06  9:42           ` Jiri Olsa
2015-01-06 13:26             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-22  7:49 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] tools/perf: extend format_alias() to include event parameters Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2015-01-06  9:39   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-01-07 23:41     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2015-01-06  9:40   ` Jiri Olsa
2014-12-22  7:49 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] perf Documentation: add " Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-12-22 14:39   ` Jiri Olsa
2014-12-22 19:34     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu [this message]
2014-12-23  9:51       ` Jiri Olsa
2014-12-23 19:59         ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-12-22  7:49 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] tools/perf: Document parameterized and symbolic events Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-12-22 14:43   ` Jiri Olsa
2014-12-22 19:45     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu

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