Re: [PATCH 04/31] perf, core: Add generic intx/intx_checkpointedcounter modifiers

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 16:53 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Also as a selfish reason I would prefer something that is short 
> to type. The qualifiers are quite common in scripts that do
> measurements here. So I would prefer to keep :t and :c as user
> interface.  But the internal implementation can be adjusted 
> of course. 

But since its so very specific to HSW consuming such limited resources
as event attribute characters seems like a bad idea.

Maybe we can allow some configuration on the userspace side that would
allow each individual user to be lazy and create shortcuts or aliasses
of some sort ?
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