Re: [F.A.Q.] perf ABI backwards and forwards compatibility

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Nov 08 2011 - 07:20:57 EST


On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 13:15 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> The one notable thing that isnt being tested in a natural way is the
> 'group of events' abstraction - which, ironically, has been added on
> the perfmon guys' insistence. No app beyond the PAPI self-test makes
> actual use of it though, which results in an obvious lack of testing.

Also the self monitor stuff, perf-tool doesn't use that for obvious
reasons.
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