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
next prev parent 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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