Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf_counter: tools: Make :u and :k excludehypervisor

[Ingo Molnar]

* Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar writes:
> 
> > Hm, mind fixing the full range of problems with these flags 
> > please?
> 
> Sure, looking at it now.
> 
> One thing I'd like to do is add complete lists of hardware events 
> for each processor so that perf can tell you the full set of 
> things you can measure, and can let you ask for them without 
> having to know raw event codes. [...]

Excellent.

> [...] I know how to work out which processor we're running on for 
> powerpc; for x86 I assume cpuid or something similar is usable 
> from userspace, is it?

Yeah. /proc/cpuinfo can be read as well.

	Ingo
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