Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:13:34 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, mingo@kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
        eranian@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Enable PEBS mode automatically for
 mem-{loads,stores} v3
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:38:34AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:03:39PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > [The patch to enable this in the user tools has been sent separately]
> > 
> > With the earlier patches to automatically try cpu// and add
> > a precise sys attribute, we can now enable PEBS for the mem-loads,
> > mem-stores events everywhere.
> > 
> > This allows to use
> > 
> > perf record -e mem-loads ...
> > 
> > instead of
> > 
> > perf record -e cpu/mem-loads/p ...
> > 
> > Always use precise=2 even though it is costly pre-Haswell
> 
> This Changelog fails to give a reason _why_ we'd want to do this.

The first is much nicer to type and understand? Just in the spirit of
making perf easier to use.

-andi
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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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