Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:00:14 +0100
From: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] oprofile: Allow setting EDGE/INV/CMASK for Intel
 counter events
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On 16.03.11 12:56:34, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Shouldn't something like the follwing work (assuming the umask table
> > is modified)?
> > 
> >  opcontrol --event SOME_EVENT:100000:0x00800000 ...
> 
> I think there was some problem with this when I tried it.
> 
> Besides I'm more interested in using named events for this;
> the raw numbers are quite evil. So this needs new user space
> in any case.

Ok, in this case we can use also /extra. So I am fine with this too.

Thanks,

-Robert

-- 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Operating System Research Center

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