Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753325AbaGIEID (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2014 00:08:03 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:37279 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751192AbaGIEIB (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2014 00:08:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 06:07:59 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Andi Kleen , jolsa@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org, acme@infradead.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] perf, tools: Automatically look for event file name for cpu v3 Message-ID: <20140709040759.GL18735@two.firstfloor.org> References: <1402700580-26939-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1402700580-26939-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20140709021312.GA25311@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140709021312.GA25311@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Is EVENTMAP a new environment variable ? If specific to PERF, should > we prefix it with "PERF_" to avoid collision? It's not perf specific, but shared with other tools (e.g. pmu-tools) > > Would all/many architectures need this "-core" suffix or is that Intel > specific ? You don't need it, just specify a full name. > Is the intent that architectures that don't need this should simply > never set EVENTMAP variable ? Any architecture can use EVENTMAP, it just points to a json file. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/