Re: perf: Add support for full Intel event lists

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Mon Mar 10 2014 - 15:39:38 EST


On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 11:49 -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
[...]
> I implemented an automatic downloader to get the event file for the
> current CPU. The events are stored in ~/.events.
[...]

This directory should be placed under $XDG_CACHE_DIR (default:
~/.cache), and should have a more specific name like 'perf-events'.

It might be useful to also support a system directory for these,
under /var/cache.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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