From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763345Ab3ECS6d (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2013 14:58:33 -0400 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:48804 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763256Ab3ECS6a (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2013 14:58:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 20:56:37 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Stephane Eranian Cc: Jiri Olsa , LKML , Corey Ashford , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Namhyung Kim , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] perf tools: Add '.' as part of the event 'name' token Message-ID: <20130503185637.GC30733@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1359230650-10415-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> <1359230650-10415-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I meant to add that I think it would be more productive if we (you and I) were > to work on the library to extend it with external text-based event tables that > could be used by perf either directly or thru the libpfm4 interface. That would be very useful indeed.. I think we talked about this before. Also wasn't there some vendor support for this idea as well? I think we want a format that is relatively simple to parse and human readable (which excludes XML on both counts ;-). The main objection of using libpfm4 has always been that its primarily something else. It also does the event listing thing, but that's only a small part of it. But if we can split out that part and use it in both projects that would be best I think.