[GIT PULL] Re: [PATCH 04/27] perf list: Add support for listing only json events

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Oct 17 2016 - 10:29:26 EST


Em Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 06:57:56AM -0700, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> > What we do know about the CPU vendor event names is that they are vendor specific,
> > and that's a pretty stable property. So my suggestion would be to simply make it:
> >
> > perf list vendor
> >
> > with perhaps add aliases as well:
> >
> > perf list model
> > perf list cpu-model
> >
> > ... and 'perf list hardware' should probably also list all the vendor specific
> > hardware events as well.
>
> Sure can change it.
>
> >
> > Could we please work a bit more on making vendor specific hardware event handling
> > more usable to people who don't care about internals?
>
> Do you prefer fully new patches, or are incremential patches ok?

I would like for you to base of my perf/urgent branch as of now, that
has those two patches yanked out so that the others can go thru.

Ingo, please consider pulling from the perf-urgent-for-mingo-20161017
tag, just signed and pushed, it has:

tag perf-urgent-for-mingo-20161017
Tagger: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Oct 17 11:26:10 2016 -0300

perf/urgent fixes:

- Fix handling of numa nodes in perf.data files (Jiri Olsa)

- Fix scrolling when refreshing 'perf top --tui --hierarchy' entries
(Namhyung Kim)

- Fix building of JIT support on Ubuntu 16.04 (Anton Blanchard)

- Fix handling of events including .c and .o, that were being treated as
BPF scripts instead of vendor ones (Wang Nan)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

- Arnaldo