Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933294Ab2JaHWz (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:22:55 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:41634 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932447Ab2JaHWw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:22:52 -0400 Message-ID: <1351668137.4047.38.camel@twins> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf: Add a few generic stalled-cycles events From: Peter Zijlstra To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Robert Richter , acme@redhat.com, mingo@kernel.org, eranian@google.com, asharma@fb.com, Anton Blanchard , paulus@samba.org, mpjohn@us.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:22:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20121031064056.GA12061@us.ibm.com> References: <20121012012839.GA15348@us.ibm.com> <20121015155534.GR8285@erda.amd.com> <20121016100809.GS8285@erda.amd.com> <20121016183148.GA25482@us.ibm.com> <1351081662.22332.13.camel@twins> <20121031064056.GA12061@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 579 Lines: 12 On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 23:40 -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > So instead of the names I came up with in this patch, stalled-cycles-fixed-point > we could use the name used in the CPU spec - 'cmplu_stall_fxu' in the arch > specific code ? You could, but I would advise against it. Human readable names are so much more accessible. -- 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/