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From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:08:17 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/12] perf vendor events intel: Update icelake to 1.19
To:     Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
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On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 9:04=E2=80=AFAM Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.=
edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2023, Ian Rogers wrote:
>
> > Updates were released in:
> > https://github.com/intel/perfmon/commit/f3d841189f8964bc240c86301f4c849=
845630b5b
> > A number of events are deprecated and event descriptions updated. Adds
> > events ICACHE_DATA.STALLS, ICACHE_TAG.STALLS and DECODE.LCP.
>
> why are the events marked as deprecated rather than just being removed?

My guess would be so that people who used the deprecated event name
don't suddenly get failures. The deprecated flag means that the events
no longer show in "perf list" unless --deprecated is specified.

Thanks,
Ian

> Vince Weaver
> vincent.weaver@maine.edu