Re: [PATCH 08/21] perf: Add new 'paused' attribute

[Jiri Olsa]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 03:41:47PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Jiri Olsa [jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> | Adding new 'paused' perf_event_attr attribute bit. It sets
> | the initial event state as paused, so it wont get started
> | until it's triggered by toggling mechanism.
> 
> There is a attr->disabled field which also leaves the event off by
> default.  Some comments distinguishing the two states will help ?

right, so the 'disabled' says the event is created as disabled

the 'paused' says the event is enabled, it get's scheduled in/out
but it's does not get started.. toggle event will do that

I'll put more info on that into doc

thanks,
jirka
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