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Date:   Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:20:21 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To:     "nakamura.shun@fujitsu.com" <nakamura.shun@fujitsu.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: libperf: lack of interface
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On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 08:57:20AM +0000, nakamura.shun@fujitsu.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> >?> On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 10:36:40AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >?> > Em Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 09:45:10AM +0000, nakamura.shun@fujitsu.com escreveu:
> >?> > > Hello.
> >?> > >
> >?> > > I'm trying to change rdpmc test in perf_event_tests[1] to use libperf, but libperf doesn't have enough interfaces.
> >?> > > Does anyone plan to implement any of these libperf features?
> >?> > >
> >?> > > - Interfaces that can run ioctl (PERF_EVENT_IOC_RESET) from userland
> >?> > > - Interfaces that can run fcntl (SIGIO) from userland
> >?>
> >?> hi,
> >?> we could add perf_evsel__fd like below, would it help your usecase?
> >?>
> >?> if you described your usecases in more details we could
> >?> see if we could add/move something to libperf for that
> >?>
> >?> as Arnaldo said below it could be already in tools/perf/util/*.c
> >?> somewhere ;-)
> >?
> >?As Peter says, I understood that for rdpmc, no reset is needed.
> >?
> >?However, PAPI resets it explicitly, for example, at PAPI_reset.
> >?In other, PAPI also has the ability to call PERF_EVENT_IOC_REFLESH on overflow to call a user-registered handler, using SIGIO.
> >?
> >?I think it is desirable to be able to achieve similar functionality.
> 
> Does anyone have any comments?

I'll try to add that functionality soon,
I'll cc you on patch

jirka