Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] perf,x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:07:30AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> The downside to such a sysfs entry will be the scope. It would either
> be pmu wide (unwieldy for many PMUs) or be only per listed event; and
> we really don't want exhaustive event lists in the kernel.

So why not teach perf tool to recognize the PMU instead of adding
anything to the kernel?

It seems much easier to me...

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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